Conference

Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2024

Join PNNL in attending the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit! 

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December 1–6, 2024

Boston, MA

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers will be joining peers from around the world at the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting, hosted by the Materials Research Society.

Featured PNNL Presentations

Monday, December 2

Understanding the Forces that Regulate Crystallization by Particle Attachment

Session: 10:30–11:00a.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 2, Room 201

PNNL Presenters: James De Yoreo, Elias Nakouzi, Lili Liu, Sakshi Yadav Schmid, Dongsheng Li, Christopher Mundy, Gregory Schenter, and Jaehun Chun

 

Synthesis and Dynamics of Stable, Highly-Dispersed Precious Metal Model Catalysts

Session: 11:00–11:30a.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 1, Room 109

PNNL Presenter: Zdenek Dohnalek

 

In Situ Observation of Hydrogen Interactions with Highly Strained Ni Twin Boundaries

Session: 11:30–11:45a.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 1, Room 109

PNNL Presenters: Hyoju Park, Peter Sushko, and Dongsheng Li

 

The Role of Surface Potential in Formation of Branched Cubic Pt Mesocrystals by Oriented Attachment

Session: 11:45a.m.–12:00p.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 2, Room 201

PNNL Presenters: Yuna Bae, James De Yoreo, and Dongsheng Li

 

Uncovering the Structure-Property Relationships in Epitaxial Pd Metal and PdO Thin Films

Session: 3:15–3:45p.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 1, Room 109

PNNL Presenter: Yingge Du

 

Crystal Reconstruction of PdO Film Caused by Oxygen Vacancy Generation Through Vacuum Annealing

Session: 3:45–4:00p.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 1, Room 109

PNNL Presenters: Min-Ju Choi, Mark Bowden, Peter Sushko, and Yingge Du

 

Design of Sustainable Layered Oxide Cathodes for Na-Ion Batteries

Session: 4:00–4:30p.m. EST | Location: Sheraton, Third Floor, Commonwealth

PNNL Presenters: Xiaolin Li, Fredrick Omenya, Marcos Lucero, and David Reed

 

Reaction-Diffusion Coupling Enables Efficient Recovery of Critical Materials from Permanent Magnet and Battery Feedstocks

Session: 4:30–4:45p.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 1, Room 109

PNNL Presenters: Elias Nakouzi, Qingpu Wang, Yucheng Fu, Pravalika Butreddy, Andrew Ritchhart, Erin Miller, Duo Song, Zhijie Xu, Jaehun Chun, and Maria Sushko

 

Tuesday, December 3

Engineering Proteins and Peptoids to Direct and Accelerate Calcium Carbonate Nucleation and Growth

Session: 9:00–9:30a.m. EST | Location: Sheraton, Second Floor, Liberty B/C

PNNL Presenters: James De Yoreo, Mingyi Zhang, Ying Chen, Biao Jin, Zheming Wang, Shuai Zhang, Jinhui Tao, and Chun-Long Chen

 

The Design Pathway for Developing Iodine Sorbents—Metal-Functionalized Silica Aerogels

Session: 9:00–9:15a.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 3, Room 305

PNNL Presenters: Josef Matyas, Brian Riley, and Joshua Silverstein

 

Current Understanding and Modeling of The Aging of Cementitious Waste Forms—A Hanford Site Perspective

Session: 10:15–10:45a.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 3, Room 305

PNNL Presenter: Matthew Asmussen

 

Irradiation Effect on Noble Metal Particles in Water Using In Situ Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy

Session: 2:00–2:15p.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 3, Room 305

PNNL Presenters: Jaeyoung Heo, Bruce Mcnamara, Dongsheng Li, and Edgar Buck

 

Nanoscale Analysis of Hydrogen Interaction and Material Degradation Mechanisms Using Cryogenic Transfer Atom Probe Tomography and Correlative Transmission Electron Microscopy

Session: 2:00–2:30p.m. EST | Location: Sheraton, Third Floor, Tremont

PNNL Presenters: Arun Devaraj

 

Understanding Local Configurational Fluctuations in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries using Atomistic Scale Simulations

Session: 2:45–3:00p.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 3, Room 307

PNNL Presenters: Aaron Hollas, David Reed

 

Modeling Feed-to-Glass Conversion in Electric Waste Vitrification Melters

Session: 3:00–3:30p.m. EST | Location: Hynes, Level 3, Room 305

PNNL Presenters: Pavel Ferkl, Mark Hall

 

Revealing the Effects of Polymer Additives on Zn Dendrite Suppression in Aqueous Zn Batteries via In-Situ EC-AFM

Session: 3:30–3:45p.m. EST | Location: Sheraton, Third Floor, Gardner

Graduate Student Award Nominee: Ying Xia

PNNL Presenter: Ying Xia, Jinhui Tao, Mingyi Zhang, Zheming Wang, Chenyang Shi, Jingshan Du, Sun Hae Ra Shin, Praveen Thallapally, Maria Sushko, James De Yoreo

 

Wednesday, December 4

Molecular-Resolution Imaging of Ice Crystallized from Liquid Water

Session: 11:45a.m.–12:00p.m. EST | Location: Sheraton, Third Floor, Fairfax B

PNNL Presenters: Jingshan Du, James De Yoreo

 

Two-Dimensional Silk

Session: 5:00–5:15p.m. EST | Location: Sheraton, Second Floor, Liberty B/C

PNNL Presenters: Chenyang Shi, James De Yoreo

 

PNNL Award Nominee

Ying Xia headshot

Ying Xia, a graduate student at the University of Washington (UW), was selected as a Graduate Student Award Finalist for the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting. Xia will give the presentation listed above, “Revealing the Effects of Polymer Additives on Zn Dendrite Suppression in Aqueous Zn Batteries via In-Situ EC-AFM,” in a special session with the other finalists. Read more about Xia's journey, her work, and the nomination here!

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