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Abstract
The ever-escalating need for highly efficient and environmentally benign energy technologies drives research on materials for fuel cells, supercapacitors, batteries, electrolysers, and other electrochemical systems. In this realm, physical-mathematical theory, modeling, and simulation provide increasingly powerful tools to unravel how multifunctional electrochemical materials come to life during self-organization, how they live and operate, e.g., by breathing in oxygen and breathing out water vapour or by shuttling ions across electrolytes, and how they age and fail because of normal wear-and-tear or improper use. The presentation will provide an overview of challenges for materials and operation of electrochemical energy devices and it will discuss various approaches in theory and modeling to address these challenges.
Bio
Prof. Michael Eikerling received his doctoral degree from TU München in 1999, assumed a faculty position at Simon Fraser University in May 2003 and was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2012. He has published over 110 original research articles (h = 35) and 7 book chapters. In 2014, he published a textbook on “Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: Physical Principles of Materials and Operation”, together with A. Kulikovsky (CRC press).
Research interests in his group span a diverse range from fundamental to applied topics, encompassing transport phenomena at interfaces and in polymeric materials; theory and modeling of electrocatalytic phenomena; self-organization in electrochemical materials; statistical physics of heterogeneous media; porous electrode theory; electrochemcal diagnostics; and performance modeling of electrochemical devices. Prof. Eikerling fulfills leadership and executive roles in Pan-Canadian and international research networks and engages strongly in activities of the international scientific community.
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