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Interdisciplinary Physics Some recent developments and challenges in nanostructure determination: Making nanoscience great again 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg. Friday at 11:30 a.m., September 16th, 2016 Simon Billinge Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics Columbia University And Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept. Brookhaven National Laboratory Abstract: Modern materials under study for next generation technologies, such as for energy conversion and storage, environmental remediation and health, are highly complex, often heterogeneous and nano structured. A full understanding of the structure requires us to go beyond crystallography and to study the local structure, which is a major experimental challenge. There are recently emerging powerful experimental developments, for example, using the atomic pair distribution function technique (PDF), among others. I will describe the structural insights that can be obtained from heterogeneous nanostructured components such as electrodes and electrolytes in fuel cells and batteries and thermoelectrics. These approaches can yield quantitative information such as thermodynamic parameters that help us to understand function even in working devices, as well as to study failure of the devices. The approaches are under active development and show great promise. I will describe the latest developments, including spatially resolved studies of nanostructure in real devices under operating conditions with ex-situ, in-situ and in-operando studies. *Refreshments prior to talk in the Kitchen 1400BPS Shawna Prater / Secretary Astrophysics Group Michigan State University 567 Wilson Road, Room 3261 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg East Lansing, MI 48824-2320 Ph: (517) 884-5601 Fax (517) 432-8802 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>