Date: March 18th, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (EST) |聽Free In-Person Event | Location: 成人大片 Faculty Club
A TISED initiative, SEDTalks! is an educational and skill-building series for graduate students in the Faculty of Engineering whose research advances sustainability in the areas of engineering and design.
The SEDTalks! Event features TEDTalk-style presentations from three graduate students, our ChangeMakers,聽followed by a live Q&A.
Doors open at 5:00pm and the presentations are followed by a cocktail receptions.
Hoda Ahmed聽
Title: A Dash of Salt for more sustainable batteries聽
Using renewable energy to charge batteries is a great environmental step forward, but the batteries themselves need to be made greener too.聽 Hoda鈥檚 work uses manganese-based disordered rock salt (Mn-DRX) cathodes to replace Cobalt ones. This innovative approach synthesizes single-crystal nanoparticles smaller than 500nm, maintaining regular morphology and substantially improving the density and stability of Mn-DRX cathodes.聽
Steven Walker聽
Title: Making Natural Gas out of Thin Air 聽
If natural gas can be produced by reacting captured carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere with green hydrogen; the process would be carbon neutral. For this process to work an efficient catalyst is needed to increase the conversion of CO2. Steven鈥檚 research explores producing carbon neutral natural gas using a unique catalyst that looks like a Twizzler covered in Nerds but 1000 TIMES SMALLER.聽
Saadia Wasim聽
Title: A ray of sunshine for cleaner water聽
Modern water treatment methods are effective, yet they require expensive infrastructure and have high operating costs making them incompatible with rural Africa, the area in the world that needs it most. Saadia鈥檚 research is developing a low-energy, low-cost solution via solar powered plasmonic-photocatalytic nanoparticles to remediate contaminated in water. This work helps in developing a sustainable solution for communities in resource limited regions.聽