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2015 DOE EFRC Principal Investigators' Meeting NEES Participates in DOE EFRC Principal Investigators' Meeting Caption: Part of the NEES representatives gather at the recent DOE EFRC All-PI meeting. (L-R) SB Lee, A. Kozen, E. Lathrop, Y. Qi, G. Rubloff, T. Plett, M. Le and M. Noked Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES), headquartered at the University of Maryland, was well represented at the Department of Energy’s EFRC Principal Investigators’ Meeting, held Oct 26-27, 2015 in Washington, DC. This was a meeting of representatives from all 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. In addition to UMD, NEES PI's, grad students and postdocs came from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Irvine, and Sandia National Laboratories. Two plenary speakers, Lynn Orr, the DOE Undersecretary for Science and Energy, and Eric Isaacs, Provost of the University of Chicago, mentioned NEES' "All-in-one Nanopore Battery" (by directors G. Rubloff and SB Lee) work in their presentations, highlighting the pioneering effort using nanostructure designs in mesoscale architectures and its potential impact in the future of electrical energy storage. There were four NEES talks and five technical posters at the meeting. NEES had also submitted an entry in the DOE’s Poetry of Science Contest, with a poem entitled "Three Ways of Looking at a Battery" and a data-rich collage image (see below.) NEES speakers: NEES posters: 5. Jeremy Ticey (UMD): "Engineering of CNT/Sulfur Composites for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries" Caption: NEES' collage image Tree of Nanostructure Architecture, made of images from work sponsored by the center. Caption: NEES' Poetry of Science Entry, "Three Ways of Looking at a Battery"
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