Division/Committee: [ENFL: Division of Energy and Fuels]

Understanding and developing reactive, yet durable electrochemical interfaces is critical for efficiently electrifying diverse chemical transformations and decarbonizing the energy and fuel sectors. This symposium will focus on the latest experimental and theoretical advances in unraveling the complex atomic structures, chemical states, and reaction dynamics of various electrochemical interfaces and further leveraging such fundamental insights to achieve maximally co-optimized activity and stability. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Enabling complementary, real-time probes of catalyst structures or reaction pathways through operando microscopic or spectroscopic characterization; (2) Modulating surface reactivity by engineering reactant/intermediate structures and solvation dynamics at electrified solid-liquid interfaces; (3) Constructing dynamically stable active sites by regulating surface transformation and dissolution-precipitation equilibrium; and (4) Developing next-generation atomistic modeling methods for electrochemical interfaces to bridge the gap between theory and experiments.

Yugang Zhang

Brookhaven National Lab

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