CCR AVS Materials for Energy MeetingSeptember 6 , 2012

we welcome you to the 2012 AVS Materials for Energy Meeting. The focus topic for this year's meeting, " Materials for Energy " is a topic that has been attracting great attention in the last few years. As energy needs continue to grow worldwide, our conventional energy sources become strained and new materials and methods for a more efficient generation, storage, transport, and conversion of energy are essential to meet future demand. This field is thus of extreme economical and strategic importance. This year we have put an exciting program together that exemplifies the outstanding research in the field, with 4 plenary talks, 11 contributed oral presentations and 13 posters on materials for energy and other topics of great interest to the AVS community. We are very grateful for the support offered by our corporate exhibitors to this event. Representatives of 12 companies will be present, displaying the newest instruments and technologies at the Sponsors Exhibition. They are ready to help with your instrumentation and supply needs and questions. Please make sure you don't miss the opportunity to visit the exhibition. Please join us at 5:20, after the last oral presentation, for the closing ceremony, where we will present and celebrate this year's winners of our top three Best Twin Groves Wind Farm located in Eastern McLean County IL, consists of 240 Vesta 1.65 MW wind turbines having a total capacity of 398 MW. The site produces approximately 1.3 billion kilowatt hours annually, enough electricity to power 120,000 homes. This presentation will examine current forefront topics in interfacial structure, dynamics, and reactivity. Notable advances are occurring in our atomic-level view of such issues, driven by synergies between scattering measurements, local scanning probe imaging, numerical simulations and theory. Emphasis is increasingly aimed at examining how local structures kinetically form on the atomic level [1-3], and how relative reactivity and physical properties depend on local ensemble configuration. Another trend is the examination of more complex interfaces including structural evolution on multiple length-scales. Examples of this include self-assembling molecular systems [4], polymers [5,6], and hierarchical functional materials [7,8]. Due to the aforementioned developments, we are gaining rigorous atomic-level insight into the dynamical processes which govern a wide-range of heterogeneous phenomena, such as reaction dynamics and catalysis [9], collisional energy transfer [10], materials growth and erosion, self-organization, and interfacial metallurgy. This presentation will illustrate the above using recent research from our laboratory. It is …