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  • Feb
    13

    TAM Seminar- Engineering Microstructural Properties Electrochemical Materials for Energy Applications- Edwin Garcia

    McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

    3:00 PM ITW Classroom 1350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center

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    Historically, the properties of materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, solid oxide fuel cells, and other energy-related applications has been investigated by self-consistently averaging the effect of an individual representative material feature and incorporating it into coarse grained (one-dimensional) descriptions that capture the time-dependent electronic and ionic transport. Such an approach is based on using analytic solutions of simplified representations of grains, pores, or inclusions, and averaging them into models that aim to understand or engineer the macroscopic properties of the device or component at hand. However, if effects due to phase transformation kinetics, or the impact of defects such as vacancies or interstitials, dislocations, or grain boundaries are to be engineered, currently used averaging approaches will not capture the underlying multiphysical and microstructural richness of behavior of the device. In general, the modern development of advanced technology for energy applications demands: 1) the formulation of a methodology that provides an accurate description of the materials that integrate these devices at each length scale; 2) the systematic and mindful coarse-graining of lower length scale methodologies into higher length scale descriptions, and 3) the establishment of meaningful databases that enable the development of insight to understand and then engineer advanced, reliable, next generation devices. Here, by defining a thermodynamically consistent representation of materials that spatially resolves the multiphysical fields that results from formally considering microstructural features such as grain size, crystallographic texture, grain boundaries, particle size, and porosity, the time-dependent behavior is analyzed in materials for lithium-ion battery applications. Progress towards integrating the physical contributions of each individual phase and its processing-induced spatial distribution into advanced models is presented. The effect on the performance and degradations is analyzed. Reaches and limitations of well-known and emerging theories will be reviewed and compared, and efforts to accelerate to the limit of real time performance and degradation computations will be presented in an effort to explore the space of what is physically possible.

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    TIME Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andrew Liguori    andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Feb
    19

    SPREE Seminar- Cyber-Physical Systems for Network-level Transportation Resilience- Huiying Fan

    McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

    11:00 AM A230, Technological Institute

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    TIME Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andrew Liguori    andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Feb
    20

    SPREE Seminar- Granular Mechanics in the Face of Energy Transition: Flow Characterization of Biomass Particles - Yimin Lu

    McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

    11:00 AM A230, Technological Institute

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    TIME Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andrew Liguori    andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

  • Feb
    26

    SPREE Seminar- Cooperation and the Design of Public Infrastructure- Juan Carlos Martinex Mori

    McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

    11:00 AM A230, Technological Institute

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    TIME Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andrew Liguori    andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Feb
    28

    SPREE Seminar- Jackson Jewett

    McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

    11:00 AM A230, Technological Institute

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    TIME Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andrew Liguori    andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Feb
    28

    EES Seminar- Jenny Fisher

    McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

    2:00 PM A230, Technological Institute

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    TIME Friday, February 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andrew Liguori    andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Mar
    15

    Winter Classes End

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    TIME Saturday, March 15, 2025

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Mar
    17

    Winter exams begin

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    TIME Monday, March 17, 2025

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  • Mar
    22

    Spring Break Begins

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    TIME Saturday, March 22, 2025

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  • Mar
    31

    Spring Break Ends

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    TIME Monday, March 31, 2025

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  • Apr
    1

    Spring Classes Begin - Northwestern Monday: Classes scheduled to meet on Mondays meet on this day.

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    TIME Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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