HydroGEN Director Represents Consortium at 244th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Sweden

HydroGEN director Dr. Huyen Dinh was the lead chair for the Symposium on Crosscutting Materials Innovation for Transformational Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Conversion Technologies 4 (I06) at the 244^th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, which was held in Gothenburg, Sweden from October 8-12, 2023. Co-chairing this symposium was Dr. Eric Miller from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the Accelerated Discovery and Development of Energy Materials. HydroGEN steering committee member Dr. Sean Bishop from Sanda National Laboratories was a co-organizer.

DOE launched the Energy Materials Network (EMN) in 2016 to accelerate the process of materials discovery, development, and deployment in major clean energy sectors through an integrated approach. The cross-cutting conversations at the Crosscutting Materials Innovation symposium fostered synergy for future collaborations that will help address material challenges in EMNs—from interfaces, corrosion, performance, benchmarking, analysis, computational modeling, to scale up. 

The symposium brought together materials experts and stakeholders from multiple sectors covered in the current EMN portfolio, including world class leaders with multi-physics and multi-scale expertise from the EMNs, as well as leaders of other high impact materials initiatives in chemical and electrochemical systems for clean energy applications to discuss the following themes: 

Section 1         Accelerated Discovery & Development of Energy Materials    

Section 2         Consortia in Energy Materials

Section 3         Integrated Materials Synthesis, Characterization and Theory

Section 4         Materials to Market (Benchmarking, TEA, scale up, pilot demonstration, machine learning/AI)

Dr. Dinh delivered an invited talk about the HydroGEN consortium at this symposium, speaking to the consortium’s technical progress on renewable hydrogen production research and development. HydroGEN leads Sean Bishop, Dong Ding, Tadashi Ogitsu, Brandon Wood also gave invited talks about STCH, HTE, and cross-cutting modeling, respectively. 

HydroGEN’s participation abroad further contributes to the global clean hydrogen community, awareness of the state-of-the-art renewable hydrogen production research that DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office supports and fosters potential partnerships which could lead to international protocol standardization and R&D acceleration of water splitting technologies.