Pedro Gómez-Romero is a senior research scientist at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (CSIC), Spain, where he leads a research group working on nanocomposites hybrid materials combining conducting polymers and oxides, clusters and active molecular species, developing energy storage and conversion applications such as duel cells, lithium batteries and supercapacitors. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from theUniversity of Valencia and his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Georgetown University,USA. He was a visiting scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory atGolden (Co, USA) during 1998 and 1999 as a NATO senior fellow. Popularizing science is Dr. Gómez-Romero’s favorite creative activity outside the lab and,aside from his more than one hundred scientific publications, he has authoredan award-winning book and many popular science articles.
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the materials Research Society, and the Electrochemical Society.
Ten years ago graphene became the new kid in nanocarbon Town. Fundamental studies and potential applications have grown ever since like for no other material in recent times. What could be better than a material stronger than steel, harder than diamond, with great thermal conductivity, modulated electronic conductivity, light as plastic and simple as carbon? The answer is hybrid materials made of it and any other material with complementary functionalities, such as electroactive redox materials. We have developed a prospective line of work dealing with the synthesis of hybrid nanocomposites of nanocarbons with a variety of extended oxides (MnO2, CuO) as well as with molecular polyoxometalates, alike of metal oxide molecular clusters.
This approach has been applied to Graphenes leading to materials with a perfect combination of properties for their use as active electrode materials in energy-storage devices, namely, a combination of conductivity-electroactivity as well as a combination of double-layer capacitive energy storage (graphene) and faradaic energy storage in a single material with a dual energy storage mechanism. We will discuss examples of this type of materials and their improved energy storage properties, together with efforts for the integral development of low-cost high-performance electrodes based on sponge macro and microstructures of graphene and oxides.
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Abstract: Minyang Lu
Sponsor: Wenyang Yang
Media: Liping Wang
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