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Nature just published, “Use machine learning to find energy materials”, a Comment piece written by PhD students Phil De Luna and Jennifer Wei, and Profs Ted Sargent (University of Toronto), Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard), and Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal). This piece was a product of a CIFAR workshop on Machine Learning for Energy Materials hosted at MIT in the summer of 2017. You can read the comment here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07820-6

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Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Zhenyu (Kevin) Yang, Dr. Miao Zhong, Dr. Fengjia Fan, Dr. Yuanjie Pang, and Dr. Hairen Tan for being selected for the “Thousand Talents Plan” by the Chinese Government. The award results were announced on December 4th, 2017 on the 1000plan.org website. 

The Thousand Talents Plan is a highly competitive competition for faculty positions within China. Listed below are the universities where each PDF will be taking up a position as a professor. 

Dr. Zhenyu (Kevin) Yang | Zhongshan University in China

Dr. Miao Zhong | Nanjing University

Dr. Fengjia Fan | University of Science and Technology of China

Dr. Yuanjie Pang | Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Dr. Hairen Tan | Nanjing University

Congratulations to Ted Sargent and the Sargent group for being named a Web of Science 2017 Highly Free Samples, Usa Drugstore get female viagra fast https://rifleman.org.uk/dev/blog/index.php?=viagra-without-prescriptions no prescription, viagra otc Pharmacy Online Uk Cited Researcher. 

This list highlights research that ranks among the top 1% most cited works in a specific field during its year of publication, earning the mark of exceptional impact.

Congratulations to Post Doctoral Fellow Dr. Hairen Tan for winning a Best Poster Award at the Fall Materials Research Society (MRS) clomid for sale Conference in Boston. Hairen’s poster “Contact Passivation for Efficient and Stable Low-Temperature-Processed Planar Perovskite Solar Cells” was only 1 of 5 to win this prestigious award. 

Sherry, Bo, Phil and colleagues publish “Theory-driven design of high-valence metal sites for water oxidation confirmed using in situ soft X-ray absorption” in Nature Chemistry. You can download the paper here: Download

This publication has been featured in media articles as outlined below:

     1. U of T Engineering News: Artificial photosynthesis gets big boost from new catalyst

     2. Myscience.org: New Catalyst Gives Artificial Photosynthesis a Big Boost

     3. Phys.org: Artificial photosynthesis gets big boost from new catalyst

     4. Berkeley Lab New Center: New catalyst gives artificial photosynthesis big boost

PhD student Andrew Proppe and Ted Sargent were recently interviewed by Nature for its biennial survey on PhD life and career aspirations. Nature’s 2017 PhD survey of 5700 doctoral students worldwide reveals that, despite many problems with doctoral programmes, PhD students are as committed as ever to pursuing research careers. 

Read about the recent survey here: https://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7677-549a

Ph.D student Phil De Luna to speak at the Engineering Alumni Skule Lunch & Learn Series at the University of Toronto on November 8th at 12:00pm in Galbraith Building Room 202.

He will be presenting “Solar Fuels and the Future of Renewable Energy” to UofT Engineering alumni. More information on registration can be found here. 

A new Nature Review Materials article on heterostructuring and mixing of disparate materials in solution-processed semiconductors was just published! This review highlights recent examples of http://arubatourism.com/assets/blog/index.php?=buy-original-cialis-online/ heterostructured materials and devices and how heterostructuring provides new degrees of freedom to control carrier mobilities and exciton binding. 

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/natrevmats201726

On Thursday, September 28th, Ted Sargent will be giving a seminar at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) at Caltech. The seminar will be from 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m in Chu Hall, Building 30 Helios in the Conference Room 206 & ZOOM.

With vast progress in solar-to-electricity conversion, large-scale energy storage will soon be a key bottleneck to continued growth in renewables deployment. Ted will update on some recent work in the development of heterogeneous electrocatalysts for the oxygen-evolution and CO2-reduction reactions. Ted will discuss joint efforts between computational chemistry and experimental catalyst synthesis and characterization; and will also discuss the catalysts’ incorporation into systems such as CO2 gas flow cells.

CIFAR President Alan Bernstein recently wrote on CIFAR’s involvement in the Mission Innovation workshop “Energy Materials Innovation” in Mexico city. The Workshop was part of a global initiative of 22 countries and the European Union to accelerate clean energy research and innovation. Co-chaired by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a senior fellow from the CIFAR program in Bio-inspired Solar Energy, the workshop brought together scientists from around the world, including many CIFAR fellows, in areas as diverse as chemistry and artificial intelligence, to discuss novel approaches to discovering new materials for energy http://www.cpad.org/index.php/flagyl-500mg-online-order/ harvesting and storing.

Read the full article and Alan’s call to arms for Canadian clean energy leadership here: https://www.cifar.ca/assets/canada-can-be-a-leader-in-clean-energy/