Next Generation Electrochemistry (NGenE) Summer Institute, Chicago

非技术描述：下一代电化学（NGenE）是一个为期一周的以学生为中心的夏季强化研讨会，探索电化学研究的前沿，这是许多现代技术的核心。该活动汇集了一群在电化学领域表现出兴趣和研究经验的研究生，以及来自北美各地的著名电化学家。该活动的主要目标是提出该领域前沿的基本问题和研究，并制定创新战略，通过合作和批判性思维解决当前的差距。NGenE的形式旨在加速美国电化学前沿的进步，同时发展一个紧密联系的合作者社区，致力于解决对社会有直接影响的最重要的基本问题，例如，通过新的能源技术。第一版主要关注与能源相关的主题，涵盖与光合作用、燃料电池、电池、电化学反应器和超级电容器相关的现象。然而，教师提出的基本方面具有广泛的相关性，可应用于电化学研究的其他子领域。NGenE结构的一个显著特点是有助于培养下一代电化学人员，培养他们的批判性思维，并提供工具来识别和解决通过经济和环境效益产生有意义的社会进步的开创性研究重点。技术细节：下一代电化学（NGenE）将25名高级研究生和10名杰出讲师聚集在一起，为期五天，探索我们在电化学科学知识的前沿。他们研究了控制电化学过程的反应性、传输和稳定性的基本现象，并确定了我们在理解和创新策略方面的关键差距。2016年的主题是能源应用中的电化学，其中包括与电池和电解槽等重要现代技术相关的现象。NGenE通过讲座、讨论和演示探索这些研究前沿，包括实地参观阿贡国家实验室的尖端设施，以及在NGenE教师指导下由学生开发的研究项目。教师通过将电化学前沿未解决的挑战带到前台来激发讨论，同时与学生一起开发和设计创新的、前瞻性的合成、表征、理论和模拟，以解决电化学科学中的问题。该活动要求具备基本的电化学知识和经验。因此，NGenE不会问，？什么是电化学？但是呢？电化学将会变成什么？这种对基础知识差距的关注将NGenE与其他电化学夏季研讨会区分开来。该活动的目标是激发当前和下一代电化学科学家之间的对话，在未来刺激电化学科学的加速发展，影响能源，医学和制造业的应用。这一结果将带来明显的社会效益，并有助于美国在这一重要学科中的领导地位。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Next Generation Electrochemistry (NGenE) is a 1-week student-centered summer intensive workshop that explores the frontiers of electrochemical research, which is at the core of many modern technologies. The event brings together a group graduate students with demonstrated interest and research experience in the field of electrochemistry with renowned electrochemists from across North America. The primary objective of the activity is to present fundamental questions and research at the frontiers of the field, and develop innovative strategies to address current gaps through collaboration and critical thinking. The format of NGenE is designed to accelerate advances at the frontier of electrochemistry in the United States, while developing a close-knit community of willing collaborators intent on tackling the most important fundamental questions with a direct impact on society, for instance, through novel energy technologies. The inaugural edition focuses on these topics related to energy, covering phenomena of relevance to photosynthesis, fuel cells, batteries, electrochemical reactors and supercapacitors. Yet, the fundamental aspects presented by the faculty are of broad relevance, applying in other sub-fields of electrochemical research. A salient feature of the structure of NGenE is to contribute to the training of the next generation of electrochemists, fostering their critical thinking and providing the tools to identify and tackle pioneering research priorities that produce meaningful societal advances through economic and environmental benefits.TECHNICAL DETAILS: Next Generation Electrochemistry (NGenE) brings 25 advanced graduate students and 10 distinguished lecturers together for five days to explore the frontiers of our scientific knowledge in electrochemistry. They examine fundamental phenomena that control the reactivity, transport and stability of electrochemical processes at an advanced level, identifying critical gaps in our understanding and innovative strategies to address them. The theme in 2016 is electrochemistry in energy applications, which includes phenomena of relevance to important modern technologies, such as batteries and electrolyzers. NGenE explores these research frontiers through lectures, discussions and demonstrations, including a site visit to cutting-edge facilities at Argonne National Laboratory, as well as research projects developed by students under the mentoring of NGenE faculty. Faculty stimulate discussion by bringing unsolved challenges at the frontiers of electrochemistry to the fore, while working with students to develop and design innovative, forward-looking synthesis, characterization, theory, and simulation to solve problems in electrochemical science. The activity assumes baseline knowledge and prior experience in electrochemistry. As a result, NGenE does not ask, ?What is electrochemistry?? but instead ?What will electrochemistry become?? This focus on the fundamental knowledge gaps distinguishes NGenE from other summer workshops in electrochemistry. The goal of the activity is to stimulate a dialog between the current and the next generation of scientists in electrochemistry that spurs, in the future, an accelerated development of electrochemical science impacting applications in energy, medicine and manufacturing. This outcome would provide a clear societal benefit and contribute to the leadership of the U,S, in this important discipline.