Computational Materials Design For Energy And Environmental Applications

许多为解决能源和环境问题而开发的现有可持续技术使用稀有而昂贵的材料，挑战了它们的商业成功。拟议的加拿大研究教席计划旨在通过利用目前被忽视的廉价材料中的无序来改善这一问题，以提高其效率，特别是在催化和燃料电池应用方面。先进的计算技术将被用来了解材料中的无序，从而促进高素质人员的独特培训，这些人员将开始增长计算可持续能源人才库，作为加拿大新的清洁技术部门的基石之一。

Many of the existing sustainable technologies developed to tackle energy and environmental issues use rare and expensive materials, challenging their commercial success. The proposed Canada Research Chair program aims to remedy this problem by exploiting the currently overlooked disorder in inexpensive materials to enhance their efficiencies, specifically for catalysis and fuel cell applications. The advanced computational techniques will be used to understand disorder in materials, thereby facilitating the unique training of highly qualified personnel, who will consequently begin to grow a computational sustainable energy talent pool, as one cornerstone of a new cleantech sector of Canada.