NSF-PREM: Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials (CiE2M)

非技术摘要：波多黎各大学里奥皮德拉斯校区（UPRRP）、大都会大学（UMET）和图拉博大学（UT）均位于波多黎各和西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），以及康奈尔大学高能同步加速器光源（CHESS）已联手开展这项教育和创新合作材料研究工作，汇集并发展一个多元化且才华横溢的科学跨学科社区，该社区拥有歌剧同步加速器X射线技术的专业知识，以增强能量存储和转换设备。在这项合作努力中，研究生和本科生将在他们的家乡机构和国际象棋进行研究，以研究与能量转换和存储技术相关的电化学过程。 这一材料研究和教育伙伴关系（PREM）项目将通过在课程中提供新的定制课程，以及通过与国际象棋的密切合作开发研讨会并为他们提供培训机会，来影响参与学生的教育。 UPR-UMET-UT-CHESS之间的这一研究和教育伙伴关系的结果将在同行评审期刊和会议报告的出版物中传播。 还将为K-12学生开发研讨会和同步加速器动手活动，以激发他们对基于能源的技术的兴趣，以及通过与CHESS的密切互动和合作使用高能X射线同步加速器技术。技术摘要：这种合作努力带来了不同科学家群体的协同专业知识，以解决与电化学能量存储和转换设备相关的基本问题。 该项目由卡洛斯R博士领导。UPRRP化学系的Cabrera博士和Joel D.康奈尔大学国际象棋主任布洛克说。 UPRRP，UMET，UT和CHESS之间的合作努力分布在三个跨学科研究小组（IRG）。 每个IRG都将采用独特但互补的能源转换和储存策略以及基于同步加速器的技术：IRG 1。纳米结构电催化材料：通过将材料化学和基础电化学沿着操作X射线技术相结合，对碱性燃料电池界面反应性的控制过程有基本的了解;IRG 2。染料敏化太阳能电池（DSSC）的纳米结构材料：通过X射线吸收研究，建立对DSSC在操作条件下结构变化的基本理解;和IRG 3。用于能量存储的多孔纳米结构材料：为电解质纳米限制效应、嵌入后的电极结构变化开发最先进的方案，以及复合电极材料中的界面电化学能量转移机制。该合作团队将在UPR和CHESS期间组织会议，使参与者能够展示他们的研究成果，并建立新的创新想法，以增加我们的理解与能量转换和存储技术相关的界面电化学过程。 定期会议将使参与的学生能够使用基于同步加速器的技术发展成为能源材料的劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Non-Technical Summary:The University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPRRP), Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) and Universidad del Turabo (UT), all located in Puerto Rico and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) have teamed up in this educational and innovative collaborative materials research effort to bring together and develop a diverse and talented scientific interdisciplinary community with expertise in operando synchrotron X-ray techniques to enhance energy storage and conversion devices. In this collaborative effort, graduate and undergraduate students will perform research at their home institutions and at CHESS, to study the electrochemical processes associated with energy conversion and storage technologies. This Partnership in Research and Education for Materials (PREM) project will impact participating students' education by offering new tailored courses in their curriculum, and by developing workshops and making training opportunities available to them in strong collaboration with CHESS. The results of this research and educational partnership among UPR-UMET-UT-CHESS will be disseminated in publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations. Workshops and synchrotron hands-on activities will also be developed for K-12 students to motivate their interest in energy-based technologies and as well as the use of high-energy X-ray synchrotron techniques through close interactions and collaborations with CHESS.Technical Summary:This collaborative effort brings the synergistic expertise of a diverse group of scientists to address fundamental issues related to electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices. The project is led by Dr. Carlos R. Cabrera, from the Department of Chemistry at UPRRP, and Dr. Joel D. Brock, Director of CHESS at Cornell University. The collaborative efforts among UPRRP, UMET, UT and CHESS are spread over three interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs). Each IRG will embrace the use of unique, yet complementary, strategies related to energy conversion and storage and synchrotron based techniques:IRG 1. Nanostructured electrocatalytic materials: To develop a fundamental understanding of the processes that govern reactivity at the interface of alkaline fuel cells by combining efforts in materials chemistry and fundamental electrochemistry along with operando X-ray techniques;IRG 2. Nanostructured materials for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs): Establish a fundamental understanding of structural changes of DSSCs under operando conditions, by X-ray absorption studies; andIRG 3. Porous nanostructured materials for energy storage: Develop a state-of-the-art protocol for electrolyte nano-confinement effects, electrode structural changes upon intercalation, and for the interfacial electrochemical energy transfer mechanism in composite electrode materials.This collaborative team will organize conference meetings at UPR and at CHESS to enable participants to present their research findings and to establish new innovative ideas to increase our understanding of interfacial electrochemical processes associated with energy conversion and storage technologies. Regular meetings will enable participating students to develop as a workforce on energy materials using synchrotron-based techniques.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.