Ewa C.E. Rönnebro
Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directory, Richland, WA USA; tel. 509–372 6877; and email Ewa.Ronnebro@pnnl.gov.
Rönnebro is a senior research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland Washington. She studied synthesis and structures of metal hydrides earning her PhD degree in structural chemistry from Stockholm University, Sweden, in 1999 with Professor Dag Noréus. After postdoctoral studies with Tetsuo Sakai at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, she joined Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, in 2004, where she led the DOE Metal Hydride Center of Excellence multi-institutional effort on the development of “complex anionic materials” untill 2009. Her key research interest is materials discovery and development of energy storage materials, combining basic and applied research, with a focus on metal hydride materials for several different applications. She is currently leading an ARPA-E project on developing a thermal energy storage technology utilizing metal hydrides for high-temperature power generation. She has 50 published papers, two invited review papers, one book chapter, two patents, and 30 invited talks at international conferences.
Eric H. Majzoub
Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin
University of Missouri–St. Louis, Center for Nanoscience and Department of Physics and Astronomy; tel. 314-516-5779; and email majzoube@umsl.edu.
Majzoub is the associate director of the Center for Nanoscience at UMSL and an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He received his PhD degree in condensed matter physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000, where he studied the structure of Ti-based quasicrystals. He joined Sandia National Laboratories for a one-year postdoc position while working on complex hydrides for the Department of Energy. As a staff member at Sandia from 2002–2007, he was co-PI on the Metal Hydride Center of Excellence (MHCoE) award and worked with the Sandia team on materials discovery and characterization of complex hydrides. During this time, he developed widely successful crystal structure prediction methods with V. Ozoliņš at UCLA. His interests are in the general area of energy-storage materials, and he has active research programs in batteries and supercapacitors, in addition to hydrogen storage. He has over 40 peer-review publications, one book chapter, two patents, and has given 13 invited talks on hydrogen storage.
Mark D. Allendorf
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA; tel. 925-294–2895; and email mdallen@sandia.gov.
Allendorf is a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California and holds degrees in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis (A.B.) and Stanford (PhD). At Sandia, he leads efforts to develop the fundamental science and applications of metal–organic frameworks and related materials. Current research interests include chemical sensing, radiation detection, hydrogen storage, gas separations, hybrid photovoltaics, and thermochemical cycles for solar syngas production. He is President Emeritus and Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and has received multiple Sandia awards for research, leadership, and teamwork.
Ping Chen
Dalian National Laboratories for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China; tel. 86-411-84379905; and email pchen@dicp.ac.cn.
Chen is a professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (DICP, CAS). She received her PhD degree in 1997 at Xiamen University in the field of physical chemistry. Her research interests focus on solid-state hydrogen storage covering the design, synthesis, characterization, and catalytic modification of amide-hydride and metal amidoborane materials systems.
Bernard Dam
Chemical Engineering Department, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; tel. +31152784342; and email b.dam@tudelft.nl.
Dam is the head of the MECS (Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage) group at the Delft University of Technology, which focuses on hydrogen-related materials for sustainable hydrogen applications. In addition to thin-film metal hydride research for storage, sensing, and membranes, this group specializes in photoelectrochemical water splitting and the development of high-efficient oxide photoanodes. His research interests focus on the relation between growth, (defect) structure, and physical properties of thin-film oxides and hydrides.
Petra E. de Jongh
Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science–Utrecht University, The Netherlands; tel. +31 6 22736345; and email P.E.deJongh@uu.nl.
de Jongh is an associate professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science–Utrecht University. De Jongh received her PhD degree in photoelectrochemistry in 1999, and worked for five years as a senior scientist at Philips Research. She currently (co)-supervises researchers working on supported nanoparticles, especially for applications in catalysis and energy storage and conversion.
Jason Graetz
Sensors and Materials Laboratory, HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA, USA; tel. 310–317–5795; and email jagraetz@hrl.com.
Graetz received his PhD degree in materials science from the California Institute of Technology in 2003 and subsequently joined Brookhaven National Laboratory as a postdoc. He later became a tenured scientist at Brookhaven, where he led the Energy Storage Group until 2012. He recently joined HRL Laboratories, LLC, where he currently leads the Energy Technologies Department. His research is focused on energy materials, including metal hydrides for hydrogen storage and electrodes for high–energy batteries. He is a US Expert on hydrogen storage for the International Energy Agency and was the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award (2008) and the Ewald Wicke Award (2006) for his work on metal hydrides.
Bjørn C. Hauback
Physics Department, Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway; email bjorn.hauback@ife.no.
Hauback is the head of the Physics Department at IFE and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Oslo. His group has been working on synthesis and characterization of hydrogen storage materials, and in particular on aluminum- and boron-based hydrides emphasizing structure–property relationships. From 2006–2012, Hauback served as the operating agent of Task 22 of the International Energy Agency Hydrogen Implementation Agreement (IEA HIA). This is the largest international collaboration in hydrogen storage materials development ever established.
Richard Howlett
Nilar Inc., Denver, CO, USA; email Richard.Howlett@nilar.com.
Howlett is the vice president of engineering for Nilar Power Systems, with experience in bi-polar NiMH technology and patents within the respective field. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Texas Tech University, with a focus on controls and system modeling. He has 12 years of experience in the advanced vehicle engineering industry, including alternative fuels, electric, hybrid electric, and fuel-cell vehicle research. Within SAE International, Howlett is chairing the Battery Testing Standards Committee under the Vehicle Battery Steering Committee. In addition to his involvement in the advanced battery industry, he worked as a program manager at Hewlett-Packard.
Christoph Langhammer
Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; tel. +46 (0)31 772 3331; and email clangham@chalmers.se.
Langhammer is an assistant professor in the applied physics department at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where he also received his PhD degree (2009) in the field of materials science and nanoplasmonics. His research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of surface science, nanoscience, catalysis, and nano-optics, with a focus on processes at surfaces and interfaces of (nano)materials and the development of new optical spectroscopy techniques for in situ studies of functional nanomaterials. He is also co-founder and chief scientific officer at the spin-off company Insplorion AB.
Hai-Wen Li
International Research Center for Hydrogen Energy, Kyushu University, Japan; tel. 81-92-802-3235; and email li.haiwen.305@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
Li is an associate professor in the International Research Center for Hydrogen Energy and International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER) at Kyushu University. He received his PhD degree in materials science from the Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2005. He spent six years at the Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, prior to joining Kyushu University in 2011. His research focuses on the development of advanced materials for efficient hydrogen storage and electrochemical applications, especially by using metal hydrides and complex hydrides.
Kyle Michel
Department or Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; tel. 847-491-4180; and email kylemichel@northwestern.edu.
Michel is a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University where he studies materials for energy applications. He received a BS degree (2007) in engineering physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD degree (2011) in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include structure prediction, computational thermodynamics, and defect kinetics.
Dag Noréus
Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden; tel. +46-8-161253; and email dag.noreus@mmk.su.se.
Noréus is a professor in the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University. He earned his PhD degree in reactor physics in 1982 at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and completed his postdoc at Daimler-Benz, Metal Hydride Laboratory, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1983. Noréus became a researcher in 1984 and a professor in 2000 in the Department of Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University. His research interests include x-ray diffraction, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, and electrochemistry focusing on the understanding of metal-hydrogen interaction in metal hydrides and electrodes.
Vidvuds Ozoliņš
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; tel. 310-267-5538; and email vidvuds@ucla.edu.
Ozoliņš is a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a PhD degree in theoretical physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1998. Before joining UCLA in 2002, he was a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. His research interests lie in the areas of computational materials science for energy storage, thermoelectrics, structural materials, nuclear fuels, and electronic and optical materials.
John J. Vajo
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California, USA; tel. 310–317–5745; and email jjvajo@hrl.com.
Vajo is currently a senior scientist at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California. He received a BS degree in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD degree in physical chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. His graduate work focused on surface chemistry, specifically mechanistic studies of heterogeneous catalysis. After postdoctoral work at SRI international, Vajo joined HRL in 1989. His current research interests include solid-state materials for hydrogen storage focusing on complex hydrides and methods to alter their thermodynamics and kinetics. He received the DOE Hydrogen Storage R&D award in 2006.
Jianhui Wang
International Research Center for Hydrogen Energy, Kyushu University, Japan; tel. 81-92-802-3235; and email well.wjh@gmail.com.
Wang is a postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University working with Professor Etsuo Akiba. He earned his PhD degree in materials science from Zhejiang University in 2011 through joint PhD training at the National University of Singapore (2007–2008), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009), and Zhejiang University (2010–2011), co-advised under Professors Ping Chen and Hongge Pan. His areas of interest include fundamental studies and applications of solid-state chemistry, electrochemistry, and heterogeneous catalysis in energy storage.
Zhou Ye
Höganäs AB Global Development, Sweden; tel. +46 42 338073; and email zhou.ye@hoganas.com.
Ye is the manager of soft magnetic composite technology at Höganäs AB Global Development in Sweden. He earned his master's degree in materials science in 1986 at Zhejiang University and his PhD degree in chemistry in 2000 at Stockholm University. Since 2000, he has worked as a development engineer and department manager at Höganäs AB Global Development. His research interests include different metallic functional materials, such as hydrogen storage materials, and soft and hard magnetic materials.
Kazuki Yoshimura
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Nagoya, Japan; tel. +81 (052) 736 7305; and email k.yoshimura@aist.go.jp.
Yoshimura is the leader of the research group developing smart windows at AIST. He also has been a professor at Gifu University since 2000. His research interests are functional thin films that control light and thermal flow. He investigated metal oxide electrochromic thin films. Since 2002, he has been involved in research to realize smart windows using switchable mirror thin films.
Claudia Zlotea
Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est, UMR7182, CNRS, 2–8 rue Henri Dunant, 94320 Thiais, France; tel. +33149781214; and email claudia.zlotea@icmpe.cnrs.fr.
Zlotea is presently a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est. She received her PhD degree in materials science from Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble (France) in 2002. Her main research interests include bulk and nanoscaled materials for solid-state hydrogen storage.
