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--_000_AEAB69C0650E40D0B254AB4E73F59269dalca_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thursday, April 5, 2018 7:00pm - K.C. Irving Centre Auditorium Acadia University, Wolfville Our Energy Future, Lithium-Ion Batteries and Electrochemical Energy Storage= by Jeff Dahn Abstract: Thank goodness the world is shifting more and more to renewable sources of = energy like solar, wind and tidal. However, the sun does not always shine,= the wind does not always blow and tidal flows are zero periodically. Elect= rochemical energy storage (in batteries) is needed to deal with this variab= ility when the fraction of renewables on the energy grid becomes large. In = this talk, I will highlight Canadian contributions to the science and techn= ology of lithium-ion batteries that are helping with the transformation to = renewable energy and electric vehicles. I will also provide a few sobering= perspectives on the scale of this transformation. Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering developers of the lithium-= ion battery that is now used worldwide in laptop computers and cell-phones.= Dahn's recent work has concentrated extending the lifetime of lithium-ion= batteries so they last decades. Jeff Dahn was born in Bridgeport, Conn. in 1957 and emigrated with his fami= ly to Nova Scotia in 1970. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from Dalhousie= University (1978) and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in= 1982. Dahn then worked at the National Research Council of Canada (82-85) = and at Moli Energy Limited (85-90) before taking up a faculty position in t= he Physics Department at Simon Fraser University in 1990. He returned to D= alhousie University in 1996 as a Professor of Physics. He is presently a C= anada Research Chair and the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair. Jeff and his wife Kathy=92s twin daughters, Tara and Hannah are graduates o= f Dalhousie Medical School and are currently in their residency program. T= heir son, Jackson, is also a Dalhousie graduate (Engineering), who works at= a startup company, Novonix, in Dartmouth. Jeff Dahn was awarded the inaugural Governor General Innovation Award (Cana= da) in May, 2016 and the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal in Science and Enginee= ring (Canada=92s top science award) in 2017 among many other awards. Patrick Kelly 159 Town Road Falmouth NS B0P 1L0 Canada --_000_AEAB69C0650E40D0B254AB4E73F59269dalca_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: <5A6B725133BD774F9A3F84D483C5763C@CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> </head> <body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-lin= e-break: after-white-space; "> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">Thursday, Apri= l 5, 2018</span> <div style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">7:00pm - K.C. Irving Centre Auditorium</di= v> <div style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">Acadia University, Wolfville<br> <br> <b>Our Energy Future, Lithium-Ion Batteries and Electrochemical Energy Stor= age by Jeff Dahn</b><br> <br> Abstract:<br> Thank goodness the world is shifting more and more to renewable sources of = energy like solar, wind and tidal. However, the sun does not always s= hine, the wind does not always blow and tidal flows are zero periodically.&= nbsp;Electrochemical energy storage (in batteries) is needed to deal with this variability when the fraction of renewables on= the energy grid becomes large. In this talk, I will highlight Canadian con= tributions to the science and technology of lithium-ion batteries that= are helping with the transformation to renewable energy and electric vehicles. I will also provide a few= sobering perspectives on the scale of this transformation.<br> <br> <i>Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering developers of the lithi= um-ion battery that is now used worldwide in laptop computers and cell-phon= es. Dahn's recent work has concentrated extending the lifetime of lit= hium-ion batteries so they last decades. <br> <br> Jeff Dahn was born in Bridgeport, Conn. in 1957 and emigrated with his fami= ly to Nova Scotia in 1970. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from Dalh= ousie University (1978) and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columb= ia in 1982. Dahn then worked at the National Research Council of Canada (82-85) and at Moli Energy Limited (85-90) befo= re taking up a faculty position in the Physics Department at Simon Fraser U= niversity in 1990. He returned to Dalhousie University in 1996 a= s a Professor of Physics. He is presently a Canada Research Chair and the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Cha= ir.<br> <br> Jeff and his wife Kathy=92s twin daughters, Tara and Hannah are graduates o= f Dalhousie Medical School and are currently in their residency program. &n= bsp;Their son, Jackson, is also a Dalhousie graduate (Engineering), who wor= ks at a startup company, Novonix, in Dartmouth.<br> <br> Jeff Dahn was awarded the inaugural Governor General Innovation Award (Cana= da) in May, 2016 and the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal in Science and Enginee= ring (Canada=92s top science award) in 2017 among many other awards.</i><br= > <div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-varian= t: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal= ; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: n= one; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-hori= zontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-dec= orations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stro= ke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style= =3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;= font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: no= rmal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent:= 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0= px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing= : 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> <div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line= -break: after-white-space; "> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color:= rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;= font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-he= ight: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-spa= ce: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing= : 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-ef= fect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;= "> <div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line= -break: after-white-space; "> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color:= rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;= font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-he= ight: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-spa= ce: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing= : 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-ef= fect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;= "> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; "><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> Patrick Kelly</font></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; ">159 Town Road</font></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; ">Falmouth NS B0P 1L0</font></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; ">Canada</font></div> <div><font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Courier; "><br> </font></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span></span></div> </div> </body> </html> --_000_AEAB69C0650E40D0B254AB4E73F59269dalca_--
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