{"618080":{"#nid":"618080","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GTPN Seminar Series with Professor Nitash Balsara","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe need for creating safe electrolytes for lithium batteries is significant given the continued safety problems associated with current lithium-ion batteries.\u0026nbsp; Nonflammable polymer electrolytes offer a possible solution but the rate of lithium ion transport is too low for practical applications.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, I will discuss some of the fundamental factors that limit ion transport in polymers.\u0026nbsp; In all electrolytes, the current generated at steady state is proportional to the applied potential.\u0026nbsp; The proportionality constant depends on Stefan-Maxwell diffusion coefficients that are negative over a substantial salt concentration range.\u0026nbsp; The implications of this on battery performance will be discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT THE SPEAKER\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor of Nitash P. Balsara is a chemical engineer with a bachelor\u0026#39;s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India in 1982, a master\u0026#39;s degree from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York in 1984, and a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1988.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; From 1989-1991, he was a post-doctoral researcher, first at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, and then at Exxon Research and Engineering Company in Annandale, New Jersey.\u0026nbsp; In 1992 he joined the faculty of Department of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York.\u0026nbsp; He was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and professor in 1998.\u0026nbsp; In 2000 he accepted the job that he currently holds: a joint appointment as professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.\u0026nbsp; Along with his students and collaborators, he cofounded two battery start-ups, Seeo, Inc., and Blue Current.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will discuss some of the fundamental factors that limit ion transport in polymers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Negative Diffusion Coefficients in Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries"}],"uid":"28463","created_gmt":"2019-02-19 16:47:29","changed_gmt":"2019-02-28 17:51:26","author":"Tim Parker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-03-15T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-03-15T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-03-15 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-03-15 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-03-15 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618601":{"id":"618601","type":"image","title":"Balsara","body":null,"created":"1551376028","gmt_created":"2019-02-28 17:47:08","changed":"1551376028","gmt_changed":"2019-02-28 17:47:08","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235469","name":"PHOTO - Nitash Balsara 2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHOTO%20-%20Nitash%20Balsara%202.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHOTO%20-%20Nitash%20Balsara%202.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6397,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PHOTO%20-%20Nitash%20Balsara%202.jpg?itok=m3-uoDmE"}}},"media_ids":["618601"],"groups":[{"id":"585025","name":"Center for the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces (STAMI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"107891","name":"gtpn"},{"id":"172973","name":"STAMI"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Mohan Srinivasarao\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Emohan@mse.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESharon Lawrence\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Esharon.lawrence@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}