NSF Workshop - Drug Discovery Approach to Breakthroughs in Batteries
September 8 and 9, 2008
Massachusetts Institute of Technologyrecent press
teaching praise...
from an interview with Bill Gates in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 2008
Q: You're a prototypical motivated learner. You listen to chemistry lessons in your spare time. Could you ever envision finding some new idea that inspired you so much that you'd be willing, in this new era of your life, to start a completely new venture?
Gates: … Everybody should watch chemistry lectures -- they're far better than you think. Don Sadoway, MIT -- best chemistry lessons everywhere. Unbelievable.
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Donald R. Sadoway |
research
... to establish the scientific underpinnings
for technologies that make efficient use of energy and natural resources in
an environmentally sound manner.... The overarching theme of his work is electrochemistry
in nonaqueous media
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J.L. Lutkenhaus, E.A.. Olivetti, E.A. Verploegen, B.M. Cord, D.R. Sadoway, and P.T. Hammond, "Anisotropic Structure and Transport in Self-Assembled Layered Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites," Langmuir, 23 (16), 8515-8521 (2007).
environmentally sound electrochemical extraction and recycling of metals, lithium solid-polymer-electrolyte batteries, advanced materials for use as electrodes, separators, and walls in fused-salt electrolysis cells, electrochemical sensors ...