Conveners
Energy Materials
- Justin Kimpton (Australian Synchrotron)
Dr
Bridget Ingham
(Callaghan Innovation)
21/11/2014, 11:15
Energy Materials
Oral
Spotty diffraction rings are symptomatic of large-grained polycrystalline materials. Analysis of these rings falls into a void between single crystal and powder diffraction methods, and is usually dismissed or discussed only briefly and in a qualitative fashion. Recently, we have developed statistical methods for quantitatively analysing the ‘spottiness’ of diffraction rings, such as those...
Dr
Qinfen Gu
(Australian Synchrotron)
21/11/2014, 11:45
Energy Materials
Oral
Zeolite molecular sieves are one of the most important materials for separation of molecules. We discovered smart porous materials for gas separation – zeolites containing cations that function as molecular trapdoors allow guest-selective, size-inverse separations. For example, a “molecular trapdoor” mechanism in specifically tailored zeolites which produces a counter-intuitive size-inverse...
Mr
Wesley Dose
(University of Newcastle)
21/11/2014, 12:05
Energy Materials
Oral
Increasingly there is demand for clean energy sources and suitable batteries to store this energy. Manganese dioxide and lithiated variants are a promising alternative to conventional Li-ion cathodes due to their cost, abundance, safety and electrochemical performance. Cathodes which operate by a single-phase lithium insertion/extraction process can offer some intrinsic advantages over those...
Dr
Chris Sumby
(University of Adelaide)
21/11/2014, 12:25
Energy Materials
Oral
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline materials that can be synthesised from metal ions or metal-oxide clusters (nodes) and organic building blocks (links).[1] Through careful consideration of the chemistry of the organic links the properties of these materials can be tailored for particular applications. For example, a flexible framework capable of high yielding post-synthetic...
