PROGRAMME
Chemical Engineering & Material Science
Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences are fundamental and challenging fields to study and acquire the knowledge to be understood. The fields have inspired and contributed to the emergence of various chemistry-based materials, such as, nanomaterials, biomaterials, electronic/optical/magnetic materials, ceramics, polymers, metal alloys, smart materials, semiconductor materials, and composite materials associating with design of complicated structures through the innovation of technology by the advancements in the study of fundamental science. The knowledge acquired from the studies will greatly impact on our society and coming life.
In the sessions of Chemical Engineering and Material Science at EKC 2022, the recent scientific issues that are considered for environment and human being will be discussed with various up-to-date results from studies in the fields.
- Session1. Clean Manufacturing of Steel and Alloys
- Session2. Computational Materials Science and Technology for Sustainable Energy
- Session3. 2D and Nanomaterials, their Fundamentals and Applications
- Session4. Organic Optoelectronic Materials for Sustainability
- Session5. Opportunities and Challenges in Materials Science for Renewable Power-to-X
Programme Committee
| Date / Time | 2022-07-20 15:20 -- 16:50 |
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| Room | Lacydon |
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| Date / Time | 2022-07-20 17:10 -- 18:40 |
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| Room | Lacydon |
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| Synopsis | Much effort on the Materials Genome Initiative over the last decade has brought enormous advances, in search of futuristic energy materials for the sustainable future. Computational materials science and technology is playing a pivotal role in the field by providing a broad range of information, for instance, from fundamental understanding in physical and chemical phenomena, materials properties arising accordingly to a structure-performance-process continuum which can be further exploited for novel materials design and discovery.
Notably, advances in high-throughput computational methods, automations, and recent advent of artificial intelligence and modern machine learning techniques have greatly accelerated the movement in discovering the vast materials space. However, owing to this unique multi-faceted nature, the field now has a rather vague boundary, and thus there are still many open questions remaining which cannot be solved without a cross-disciplinary understandings and approaches.
The session mainly aims at bringing experts in various fields together, specifically under the common interests in designing novel energy materials, with the aid of many computational materials science techniques such as ab initio methods, stochastic methods, and artificial intelligence techniques including machine learning, ultimately to provide a multidisciplinary inspirations and perspectives. Specifically, development and application of state-of-the-art computational methods for sustainable energy materials design, and bridging-gap research between theory and experiment, will be encompassed throughout the session. |
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| Date / Time | 2022-07-21 13:30 -- 15:00 |
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| Room | Lacydon |
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| Synopsis | Nowadays, an agenda for sustainable development is supposed to be achieved by the year 2030 and a total of 17 global goals were set to attain sustainable development. In particular, nanomaterials have a key unprecedented role to play in these goals owing to recent advances in nanotechnology. Engineering functional nanomaterials and their products have emerged as potential replacements to conventional disposable materials, toxic chemicals, and noble metals. In line with this trend, the electronic industry has experienced a paradigm shift, which is that global companies are no longer only betting on pursuing cutting-edge performance but taking strict precautions against unforeseen environmental, economic, and social risks. In other words, the unique properties and functionalities of engineered nanomaterials lead to a technological edge that can greatly enhance future value by solving global sustainability challenges (e.g., ecotoxicity, resource monopoly, scarcity, human healthcare, etc). As nanomaterials vary significantly in properties and functionalities, their applications are endless as well across almost all fields of scientific research and industrial applications.
Proposed topics in this session are as follows.
- Nanomaterials: physical, chemical, and fundamental properties.
- Nanomaterials for electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic applications.
- Nanomaterials for environmental monitoring, treatment, and remediation.
- Nanomaterials for food, agriculture, and biomedical.
- Nanomaterials: not limited to the above fields. |
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| Date / Time | 2022-07-21 15:20 -- 16:50 |
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| Room | Lacydon |
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PROF. WHANG, Dong Ryeol
Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Materials, Hannam University Show Profile |
| Synopsis | Organic optoelectronic materials promise innovative and accessible technologies for the human civilization’s sustainability. Through the whole lifecycle of optoelectronic applications, organic materials offer low-cost production, processing, device fabrication, device operation, and disposal/recycling. Not only they do reduce energy input for production and usage, they also play important roles in optoelectronic devices for energy production.
This session includes recent development of organic materials and their applications in optoelectronics devices, such as field effect transistors, light emitting diodes, photovoltaics, photocatalysis for energy production, and photodetectors.
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| Date / Time | 2022-07-21 17:10 -- 18:40 |
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| Room | Lacydon |
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PROF. BAE, Dowon
Assistant professor, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Show Profile |
| Synopsis | Power-to-X technologies have gained increased attention since they convert renewable electricity to chemicals and fuels that can be more easily stored and/or transported. H2 production through water electrolysis has been considered a promising approach since it leads to the production of a sustainable fuel that can be used directly in fuel cells. Also, it can be utilised to convert CO2 (CO2 reduction reaction; CO2RR) into other chemicals and fuels compatible with the existing infrastructure. Electrochemical ammonia (NH3) production has also received considerable attention due to its atmospheric pressure condition and room temperature process.
Simultaneously, development in electricity storage technologies that bridge the gap between intermittent renewable resources and long duration demands from the Power-to-X conversion processes. This involves ultra-long duration electrochemical energy storage technologies, such as redox flow batteries, sulphide batteries and other advanced types of batteries. The Discovery of new electrolytes, electrodes, and integration of new processes for enhancing energy/power densities and charging/discharging efficiencies are challenging in the field.
The topics we will cover in the envisaged session are listed below:
▪ Electrochemical and electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
▪ Materials and chemistry for green hydrogen production
▪ Photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic materials
▪ Electrolyte chemistry for Power-to-X processes
▪ Advanced materials for long-term battery storage
▪ Scalable energy storage chemicals and materials |
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