时间：12月10日（星期三）下午15：00
地点：大学城校区B5栋1楼会议室

报告摘要：
       Storage of electricity, especially that from fluctuated renewable energy is significantly important. It becomes clear that the capacity to accept such fluctuated energy is limited and during low demand period of the day or season the grid do not have enough romm to accept electricity from renewables.
       On the other hand, after the earthquake of eastern Japan on 11th March 2011, people are interested in introduction of renewable energy into our society. Therefore, stationary energy storage of fluctuated renewable energy attracts much more attention than before. Especially, renewable energy is expected to be stored in a form of hydrogen because the density of enegy in a volume basis is very high compared to other methods. In order to apply hydrogen storage materials for stationary applications, cost-effective, long-life and room temperature working materials are indispensable.

附主讲人简介：
       Professor EtsuoAkiba is the Head of the Hydrogen Storage Division, Kyushu University and the Principal Researcher of the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER). He is a Top-scientist on hydrogen-related research in Japan and the Project Leader of “HYDRO☆STAR” (Advanced Fundamental Research on Hydrogen Storage Materials). He earned his PhD degree from The University of Tokyo in 1979 in physical chemistry. He joined the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 1979 and started his research on metal hydrides. During his over 30 year career on the research and development of hydrogen storage materials, he developed various types of materials including Ti-based BCC structured alloys and analyzed novel crystal structures using neutron diffraction. He received several awards including the Herbert C. Brown Award for Innovations in Hydrogen Research, Purdue University, USA in 2008 and The IPHE Technical Achievement Award in 2010.