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St. Elmo Brady's Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium: Dr. Ivan Moreno-Hernandez

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Department of Chemistry
Virtual
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Date
Jun 4, 2021   1:00 pm  
Speaker
Dr. Ivan Moreno-Hernandez
Registration
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Contact
Eva Miller
E-Mail
emillr@illinois.edu
Phone
217-244-3042
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Chemistry - Public Events

Our department recognizes the significance of sustainable diversity and inclusion to give our community a competitive advantage in our ever-evolving global society. In that regard, we created the St. Elmo Brady Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium series in 2020. The initiative invites talented underrepresented postdocs of color currently conducting postdoctoral research at top chemistry programs across the country to present their research to the students and faculty at Illinois Chemistry. Preference is given to postdoctoral scholars planning to apply for faculty positions within a year or two. A vital outcome of this program, and one that is often underestimated in its import, will be the networking opportunities made available to visiting postdoctoral scholars with members of our community.

Bio:

Dr. Ivan Moreno-Hernandez received a Bachelor of Science degree with University Honors in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Afterwards, Ivan continued his studies in Chemistry as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Prof. Nathan Lewis at the California Institute of Technology. Ivan focused on the study of semiconductor/metal-oxide heterojunctions for photoelectrochemical applications and on the discovery of earth-abundant electrocatalysts for anodic reactions in acidic electrolytes. Since 2019, Ivan has been a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos at the University of California, Berkeley and has worked on understanding and controlling the reactive chemical environment created during liquid cell electron microscopy experiments.


Symposium title:

Addressing renewable energy challenges through electrocatalyst discovery and in-situ nanoscale observations

Abstract:

Electrochemical technologies can couple renewable energy sources with our chemical infrastructure, thereby enabling sustainable energy practices. The implementation of these technologies will rely on both the discovery of new electrochemical materials with improved performance and the development of techniques to understand complex reaction dynamics at the nanoscale. We will first discuss the discovery of an earth-abundant class of electrocatalysts, crystalline transition metal antimonates, that are thermodynamically stable for anodic reactions in acidic electrolytes. Our discussion will then focus on the development of redox-mediated liquid cell electron microscopy, a technique that allows electrochemical reactions to be observed in real time at near-atomic resolution.

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