NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Advanced Material Development for Generation, Storage and Integration of Renewable Energy

不断飙升的能源成本，新技术的出现，以及对有害排放日益增强的认识 由于燃烧化石燃料发电，迫切需要更丰富和更多的 污染更少的能源。可再生能源技术提供了传统能源的替代方案 技术；然而，它们的间歇性限制了它们对电力的广泛渗透 市场。电化学储能设备，如充电电池和超级电容器，已经被 被确定为先进、可靠和具有成本效益的能源存储的关键使能技术。 纳米工程材料和涂层引起了工业界和科学界的关注。 因为它们独特的物理、化学和催化性能，它们的影响前所未有 在能源转换和储存领域，这一点比其他领域更为显著。建议延续的工业 兰伯顿学院高级纳米工程材料研究讲座(IRCC) 可再生能源的转换、储存和集成的开发将继续并扩大 为能源部门开发先进、负担得起的材料的应用研究方案以及 开展面向商业的能源系统设计、优化和集成研究。 目前，已有六(6)家当地和地区中小企业合作伙伴承诺在多个领域开展合作 行业驱动的研究项目，预计将通过启动新的合作伙伴关系和 在IRCC计划的过程中，扩大与现有合作伙伴的合作。建议数 该计划将创造一个有利的教学环境，以培养高素质的人才，至少是有偿和 没有工资的50名学生，以及5名应届毕业生在接下来的五年里。 IRCC方案及其项目成果可以对当地经济和 通过技能创造就业机会创造环境，以新产品的形式开发高价值商品 并大幅减少温室气体(GHG)排放和其他有害污染物。

Soaring energy costs, emergence of new technologies, and an ever-increasing awareness of harmful emissions from burning of fossil fuels for electricity generation have necessitated an urgent need for more abundant and less polluting sources of energy. Renewable energy technologies offer alternatives to conventional technologies; however, their intermittent nature has limited their widespread penetration into the electricity market. Electrochemical energy storage devices such as rechargeable batteries and ultra-capacitors have been identified as critical enabling technologies for advanced, reliable and cost-effective energy storage. Nano-engineered materials and coatings have attracted the attention of industrial and scientific communities because of their unique physical, chemical and catalytic properties and their impact has nowhere been more pronounced than in the field of energy conversion and storage. The proposed continuation of the Industrial Research Chair for Colleges (IRCC) program at Lambton College in 'Advanced Nano-Engineered Material Development for Conversion, Storage and Integration of Renewable Energy' will continue and expand the applied research program on development of advanced, affordable materials for the energy sector as well as conducting business-oriented research in energy system design, optimization and integration. Currently, there are six (6) confirmed local and regional SME partners committed to collaborate on multiple industry-driven research projects and is anticipated to grow the program by initiating new partnerships and by expanding the collaborative work with the current partners in the course of the IRCC program. The proposed program will create a conducive teaching environment to train highly qualified personnel, at least paid and unpaid fifty students, and five recent graduates in the next five years. The IRCC program and its project outcomes can have significant positive impacts on local economy and the environment through skilled job creation, development of high-value commodities in the form of new products and processes, and substantial reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other harmful pollutants.