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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kyle Brinkman\, Professor and Chair of Materials Science an
 d Engineering Department at Clemson University will give a seminar titled "
 Perspectives on Ceramics: From Immobilization of Nuclear Waste to Improved 
 Batteries and Fuel Cells" to the interested faculty and students at Discove
 ry Park.\n\n \n\nAbstract\n\nThe focus of this presentation will be the int
 erdisciplinary nature of concepts encountered in a broad range of applicati
 on areas ranging from solid oxide fuel cell and battery materials developme
 nt where “enhancement” of ionic or electronic transport is desired to conte
 mporary work in nuclear waste immobilization with a focus on “blocking“ tra
 nsport of mobile species. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising sust
 ainable energy systems with high efficiency\, fuel flexibility\, and limite
 d byproducts. Proton-conducting SOFCs (H-SOFCs) has attracted increased int
 erest in recent years due to the lower working temperatures (400-700 ̊C). T
 riple ionic-electronic conductors (TIEC) such BaCo0.4Fe0.4Zr0.1Y0.1O3-δ (BC
 FZY) have received much attention as high performance electrode materials f
 or protonic ceramic fuel cells (PCFC). The conduction of all three species 
 makes TIECs excellent candidates as cathodes in PCFCs due to their high act
 ivity\, good stability\, and facile synthesis routes.\n\nIn contrast\, crys
 talline ceramic candidates have been proposed as alternatives to vitreous n
 uclear waste forms for their ability to trap and “block” elemental release.
  In the late 1970s\, SYNROC\, short for synthetic rock\, was developed to i
 mmobilize high-level nuclear waste (HLW). The hollandite mineral group is o
 ne of the most studied as a template for SYNROC materials and includes the 
 titanate mineral forms of hollandite. Correlations will be examined between
  the thermodynamic stability and physical properties such as elemental rele
 ase for the crystalline hollandite ceramic waste forms and ionic transport 
 in battery and fuel cell materials which may be used in the design of futur
 e energy materials.\n\n \n\nBio\n\nDr. Kyle Brinkman is the chair of the De
 partment of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University in Clem
 son\, SC. Brinkman received a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering a
 nd a Master of Science in materials science and engineering both from Clems
 on. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
 \, Switzerland with a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering. Brinkman 
 then served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Advanced Industrial Science and
  Technology Institute in Japan as part of a program sponsored by the Japane
 se Society for the Promotion of Science and later worked as a principal eng
 ineer in the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of E
 nergy’s Savannah River National Laboratory.\n\nHe is a Fellow of the Americ
 an Ceramic Society (FACErS)\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in
  the UK (FRSC)\, an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics\, a NETL O
 RISE Faculty Fellow\, received the Brimacombe Medalist Award\, the Navrotsk
 y Award for Experimental Thermodynamics and the Karl Schwartzwalder-Profess
 ional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering (PACE) Award from the American Cer
 amic Society.
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LOCATION:Discovery Park Building\, K150
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SUMMARY:Engineering Seminar: Perspectives on Ceramics: From Immobilization 
 of Nuclear Waste to Improved Batteries and Fuel Cells
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