Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professorship Lecture on 'Nanomaterials and Energy Conversion, Storage and Conservation'

Topic: Nanomaterials and Energy Conversion, Storage and Conservation
Speaker: Professor Subodh G. Mhaisalkar (Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Executive-Director, Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N))

About the Talk
Rising global population and living standards, concerns over climate change, secure & safe low-carbon energy supplies, and the fact that the energy-water nexus represents an unparalleled threat (and opportunity) to business-as-usual - all have made the issue of energy a global priority.  Over the next forty years, in order to sustain life and standards of living to which we have grown accustomed, we must develop solutions for massively scaling terawatts of affordable sustainable energy and develop means to reduce our CO2 emissions.  

Only concerted measures fuelled by breakthroughs in every aspect of science, technology, business, and industry will enable us to limit the ocean temperature rise to less than 3 degrees and provide renewable energy sources that will guarantee a sustainable future for the generations to come. It is in this context that nanoscience & nanotechnology are poised to play a transformative role in areas ranging from energy generation, conversion, transmission, harvesting, storage, recovery, transportation as well as carbon capture, storage, and conversion.  

This presentation will outline the grand challenges in the energy domain and will focus on examples of where nanomaterials and nanotechnology has provided breakthrough solutions in energy conservation, energy harvesting, and energy storage.

About the Speaker
Professor Subodh Mhaisalkar is the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor in the College of Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Professor Mhaisalkar is also the Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), a pan-University multidisciplinary research institute for innovative energy solutions.

Prior to joining NTU in 2001, Professor Mhaisalkar has over 10 years of research and engineering experience in the microelectronics industry and his areas of expertise and research interests includes semiconductor technology, perovskite solar cells, printed electronics, and energy storage. Professor Mhaisalkar received his Bachelors’ degree from IIT-Bombay and his MS/Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University.