Thursday, March 22, 2012

NSERC awards $2.3 million for lithium ion battery research

Gillian Goward (McMaster) is leading a major collaborative research project in lithium ion batteries which has been awarded a $2.3 million NSERC grant in the Automotive Partnership Canada program. The total value of this four years project is $3.5 million with contributions from industrial partners, GM Canada, Bruker Ltd., and Heka Electronics.

Researchers from McMaster include Prof. Gillian Goward, in electrochemistry and magnetic resonance, Prof. Gianluigi Botton, in electron microscopy, and Prof. Bartek Protas, in mathematical modeling. Prof. Janine Mauzeroll at McGill provides expertise in scanning electrochemical microscopy, and two electrochemistry groups lead by Prof. Andy Sun at the University of Western Ontario, and Prof. Steen Schougaard at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

For more about this project:

$3.5 million partnership to jumpstart confidence in lithium ion car batteries (McMaster Daily News)

Gillian Goward Gets $3.5m for Electric Car Battery Research (C&CB, McMaster)

McMaster gets $3.5m jolt for electric car battery research (Hamilton Spectator)

Bringing Minds to Market: Government of Canada Invests in Auto Innovation (NSERC news release, March 20, 2012)

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Solid-State NMR in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

A special issue of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance guest-edited by Clare Grey (Cambridge) and Gillian Goward (McMaster), Volume 42, Pages 1-98 (April 2012) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09262040/42

Editorial

Clare P. Grey, Gillian R. Goward, Editorial "Solid-State NMR in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
42 (2012) 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.03.001

Canadian contributions

A. Kuhn, M. Kunze, P. Sreeraj, H.-D. Wiemhöfer, V. Thangadurai, M. Wilkening, P. Heitjans, "NMR relaxometry as a versatile tool to study Li dynamics in potential battery materials," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 42 (2012) 2-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.02.001

L.J.M. Davis, X.J. He, A.D. Bain, G.R. Goward, "Studies of Lithium Ion Dynamics in Paramagnetic Cathode Materials Using 6Li 1D Selective Inversion Methods," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 42 (2012) 26-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2012.01.002

Friday, March 16, 2012

62nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, CSChE 2012

The call for papers is now open and will close May 31, 2012
Details are available at http://www.csche2012.ca/

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee and the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE), we are pleased to welcome you to the website for the 62nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia from October 14-17, 2012.

The main themes of this year’s conference are Energy, Environment and Sustainability, which are critical issues faced by chemical engineers both in Canada and around the world. Five international symposia: gasification, biomass and bioenergy, fuel cells-battery-electrochemical technologies, sustainability and spouted beds, are to be organized by multinational committees of experts in each field. Regular programs in all aspects of chemical engineering are also planned by the Subject Divisions of the CSChE. Separate graduate and undergraduate programs are organized by our student committees to showcase the student contributions and to promote exchange of ideas for our young and bright chemical engineers.

We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!
Maja Veljkovic, Conference Chair
X. Tony Bi, Conference Co-Chair

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

NMR paper in Angewandte Chemie

Frédéric A. Perras and David L. Bryce, "Direct Investigation of Covalently Bound Chlorine in Organic Compounds by Solid-State 35Cl NMR Spectroscopy and Exact Spectral Line-Shape Simulations," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2012) online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201200728

This is a second publication in Angewandte Chemie featuring results obtained using resources of the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids. To see the complete list of research publications enabled by the Facility
http://nmr900.ca/publications_e.html

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

NMR Laboratory Supervisor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Competition No. A104910984D1
Closing Date - Will remain open until filled


The Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta invites applications for a Faculty Service Officer (FSO) Level II or III position.

Reporting to the Chair of the department, the NMR Laboratory Supervisor is responsible for the management and planning of a multimillion dollar, state-of-the-art Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility. For more information visit http://www.chem.ualberta.ca

This FSO position will oversee the day-to-day operation of the facility, coach and mentor staff and instruct users involved in NMR spectroscopic studies as the facility is used for both research and teaching purposes. The scope of NMR research is very wide; from biomolecules to inorganic complexes. The NMR facility and its staff measure approximately 2,500 research samples per year. This position will be directly involved in collaborative or independent research utilizing NMR, will work in close collaboration with key faculty members and will also have significant interactions with external users, equipment manufacturers and other related facilities on campus.

Applicants must hold a PhD in Chemistry or a related field combined with six or more years of relevant experience in NMR. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience and knowledge of a broad spectrum of NMR techniques and their applicability to problems that are encountered by both researchers and students. Managerial experience is considered an asset. Interested individuals should submit their Curriculum Vitae and three letters of reference to the address below; review of application will begin on March 12, 2012 however the competition will remain open until filled.

In accordance with the Faculty Service Officer agreement, this position offers a comprehensive benefits package which can be viewed at http://www.hrs.ualberta.ca

For more information and to apply online
http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A104910984D1/

Dr. D. Jed Harrison, Chair
Department of Chemistry
E3-38 Chemistry Centre
11227 Saskatchewan Drive
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2G2

Email: chair "at" chem.ualberta.ca
Fax: (780) 492-8231

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

12th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information

June 11-16, 2012, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada http://cssqi2012.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/

Agilent ENC 2012 Users' Meeting

We are pleased to announce our Users' Meeting which will be hosted at the Intercontinental Miami in conjunction with the 53rd ENC!

April 14, 2012

InterContinental Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami, FL

To register
Agilent Pre-ENC Users' Meeting

Thursday, March 1, 2012

54th Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry

The 54th Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry is taking place July 15-19, 2012 at the Copper Conference Center in Copper Mountain, Colorado. This year's conference will feature the 35th International EPR Symposium, as well as the world-renowned Solid-State NMR Symposium.

Abstracts are now being accepted for both oral and poster presentations. Deadline to submit an oral presentation abstract is May 1, 2012. Deadline to submit a poster presentation abstract is June 15, 2012. For information on submitting an abstract visit
http://www.rockychem.com/conference/call-for-abstracts.html

Conference registration is now open. Discounts are offered to those who are registered and paid on or before July 1, 2012 http://www.rockychem.com/conference/registration.html

You can access additional details on hotel reservations, discounted travel, area attractions and program content at http://www.rockychem.com