This course presents overview of global challenges associated with energy/environment nexus, energy demand, generation and storage. The course will cover concepts underlying various technologies for energy generation and storage. As many of the renewable energy technologies are firmly based on the use of advanced materials, the course will teach fundamentals involved with various advanced materials such as semiconductors, nanoscale materials and their use in devices like solar cells, batteries, capacitors, fuel cells, solar and biofuels etc.
At the completion of this course, the student should be able to accomplish the following. - Identify challenges and issues surrounding global energy. - Identify methods for fabrication of advanced energy materials and understand the difference between types of materials. - Draw band diagrams for doped and undoped semiconductors. - Recognize and analyze IV characteristics of photoelectrochemical cells, solar photovoltaic.
Profesores Invitados
Mahendra K. Sunkara
University of Louisville United States
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Chemical Engineering, 1993
MS, Clarkson University, Chemical Engineering, 1988
B.Tech., Andhra University, Chemical Engineering, 1986.
Dr. Mahendra K. Sunkara is currently a Professor of Chemical Engineering, University Scholar and the director for the Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research (Conn Center) at University of Louisville. Dr. Sunkara received his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University (India) in 1986 and M.S., Ph. D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University in 1988 and Case Western Reserve University in 1993, respectively. He worked at Faraday Technology, Inc. in Dayton, OH from 1993-1996 as a Project Engineer for various electrochemical technologies toward environmental remediation and corrosion sensing and mitigation.
He has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and proceedings, four book chapters and was awarded ten U.S. patents along with several additional U.S. patent applications pending. He coauthored a book entitled “Inorganic Nanowires: Applications, Properties and Characterization” published by CRC Press. Several national and international news articles appeared on his research work in the area of nanoscale materials and their use in energy conversion and storage applications.
In the last ten years, Dr. Sunkara delivered over fifty invited and keynote lectures in Germany, US, Greece, Taiwan, Slovenia and India. Four of his research articles appeared on the covers of prestigious journals, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemical Communications and Carbon. He was awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty in Engineering award in 1999 and was the first recipient of the prestigious CAREER grant in Speed School from the National Science Foundation in 1999. In 2002, the Louisville Magazine placed him in the list of top 25 young guns in the city of Louisville. In 2009, he received the UofL President’s distinguished faculty award for research and United Phosphorus CDS Award from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers in December 2009.
Current research interests include renewable energy technologies such as solar cells, Li Ion batteries, production of hydrogen from water and process development for growing large crystals of diamond, gallium nitride and bulk quantities of nanowires, novel carbon morphologies.
Sonia Calero
University of Louisville United States
Sonia obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in Chemical Engineering from Universidad del Valle and Universidad de los Andes, respectively. During her masters she became interested in semiconductor materials, for solar water splitting and electrochromic applications.
After 2 years working as an R&D engineer in the consumer goods industry, she returned to academia in the fall of 2016 to pursue her Ph.D degree at the University of Louisville and joined the CVD group of the Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research where she is currently working on the synthesis of novel III-V alloys (GaSbP and GaSbN) to be used in photo-electrochemical applications. Her current research interest include Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and Halide Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) synthesis techniques and computational simulation of CVD reactors.
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