On May 29, Dr. De-en Jiang, from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, visited our group, and gave a talk entitled with Understanding Supercapacitors. After the talk, he discussed with the professors and students of your group.

Biography of Dr. De-en Jiang

Dr. De-en Jiang is a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his B.S. degree in 1997 and M.S. degree in 2000 both from Peking University and a Ph.D. degree in 2005 from UCLA, all in chemistry. He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory first as a postdoc and then was promoted to a staff scientist in 2006. His research is focused on applying state-of-the-art computational methods to important chemical systems and energy-relevant problems. In this seminar, he will talk about fundamental insights into the microscopic behaviors of non-aqueous electrolytes confined in a porous electrode and their impact on the capacity of supercapacitors or electric double-layer capacitors, which store energy by adsorption of ionic species at the inner surface of porous electrodes and are complementary to rechargeable batteries due to their high power density.
Dr. Jiang has delivered over 70 invited lectures around the world and published over 120 papers, including 15 in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett., and ACS Nano. These papers received close to 4000 citations and yielded an h-index of 34 (from Google Scholar). In addition, Dr. Jiang received Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2010, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.