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

非技术总结：波多黎各大学，里约热内卢Piedras校区（uprp），大都会大学（UMET）和图拉博大学（UT），都位于波多黎各和西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），和康奈尔高能同步加速器源（CHESS）在这一教育和创新的合作材料研究工作中进行了合作，汇集和发展了一个多元化和有才华的科学跨学科社区，他们在operando同步加速器x射线技术方面具有专业知识，以增强能量存储和转换设备。在这一合作项目中，研究生和本科生将在各自的院校和国际象棋学院进行研究，研究与能量转换和存储技术相关的电化学过程。“材料研究与教育伙伴关系”（PREM）项目将通过在学生的课程中提供量身定制的新课程，以及与国际象棋密切合作，为他们举办讲习班和提供培训机会，对参与的学生的教育产生影响。UPR-UMET-UT-CHESS之间的这项研究和教育伙伴关系的结果将在同行评议的期刊和会议发言的出版物中传播。研讨会和同步加速器实践活动也将为K-12学生开发，以激发他们对能源技术的兴趣，以及通过与国际象棋的密切互动和合作，使用高能x射线同步加速器技术。技术总结：这项合作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装置相关的基本问题。该项目由uprp化学系的Carlos R. Cabrera博士和康奈尔大学国际象棋主任Joel D. Brock博士领导。uprp， UMET， UT和CHESS之间的合作努力分布在三个跨学科研究小组（irg）中。每个IRG将采用与能量转换和存储以及基于同步加速器的技术相关的独特但互补的策略：IRG 1。纳米结构电催化材料：通过结合材料化学和基础电化学以及operando x射线技术的努力，发展对碱性燃料电池界面反应性控制过程的基本理解；伊斯兰革命卫队2。染料敏化太阳能电池（DSSCs）的纳米结构材料：通过x射线吸收研究，建立对操作氧条件下DSSCs结构变化的基本理解；andIRG 3。用于储能的多孔纳米结构材料：开发一种最先进的方案，用于电解质纳米限制效应，插入时电极结构的变化，以及复合电极材料中的界面电化学能量传递机制。这个合作小组将在普遍定期审议和国际象棋会议上组织会议，使参与者能够展示他们的研究成果，并建立新的创新想法，以增加我们对与能量转换和存储技术相关的界面电化学过程的理解。定期会议将使参加会议的学生能够利用基于同步加速器的技术发展能源材料的劳动力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.