The EFRC Midterm Review of EFree was held in Gaithersburg, MD on February 5. Fourteen EFree Scientists, including management, partners and students, presented talks and posters during the review. A schedule of the review can be found here:
- 8:30am: Russell Hemley (Carnegie) - Overview
- 9:15am - John Badding (Penn State) - Nanophase Carbons and Nasim Alem (Penn State) - Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy of Energy Nanomaterials
- 10:15am - Kai Landskron (Lehigh) - Next Generation Porous Materials
- 10:45am - Tim Strobel (Carnegie) - New Solar Materials
- 11:45am - Working Lunch
- 12:30pm - Poster Sesssion:
- Steve Juhl (Penn State) - High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy of Energy Materials Synthesized in Extreme Environments
- Bo Chen (Cornell) - Theoretical Mechanistic Investigations of Nanothread Formation from Benzene
- Enshi Xu (Penn State) - Exploring the Atomic Details of Nanothreads and Engineering its Properties for Energy Applications
- Max Murialdo (Caltech) - Anomalous Thermodynamics of High-Pressure Gas Adsorption on Nanostructured Carbons
- Yiqun Liu (Lehigh) - Synthesis of Periodic Mesoporous Silica with Crystalline Pore Wall for Energy Application in Extreme Environments
- Lakshmi Krishna (Mines) - Synthesis and Characterization of Metastable Silicon-Based Materials for Solar Energy Conversion
- 1:30pm - Russell Hemley (Carneige) and Roald Hoffmann (Cornell) - Electron Transport in Light Element Materials
- 2:15pm - Chen Li (Carnegie) - Neutron Scattering Development and Progress in EFree
- 2:35pm - Maria Baldini (Carnegie) - Synchrotron X-rays: A Tool for EFree
- 3:30pm - Reviewers meet with EFree members
- 4:30pm - Russell Hemley (Carnegie) - Conclucding Remarks
- 4:40pm - Final Questions