Vienna216 th ECS Meeting with EuroCVD 17 and SOFC XI - 11 th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Vienna, Austria F October 4-9, 2009 Special Meeting Section SOFC XI The Electrochemical Society Interface • Fall 2009 13 SOFC XI F ECS Meeting th EuroCVD 17 216 ViennaViennaAustria F October 4-9, 2009 welcomewelcome elcome to Vienna—the “city of music,” where more produce radiolytic oxidants (via the decomposition of water famous composers have lived, including Mozart, Beethoven, primarily within a failed container) decay. Models must be Schubert, and Johann Strauss, than in any other city. We capable of assessing with reasonable certainty the evolution W th th are pleased to venture into this city for the 216 ECS Meeting, the17 of repository behavior from the initial excavated damaged European Conference on Chemical Vapor Deposition (EuroCVD 17) and state to the original undisturbed state. Given the long time the 11th Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC XI). This major frames involved (103 to 106 years) this is a unique challenge international conference will be held at the Austria Center Vienna, for engineered structures. and will include 44 topical symposia consisting of 3,196 technical Electrochemical approaches, coupled to a wide range of presentations. You are invited to participate not only in the technical supplementary analytical and spectroscopic methods, have program, but also in the other social events planned for the meeting. been applied to this task. This presentation will illustrate how electrochemical methods have been used to: (1.) develop the mechanistic understanding of materials corrosion processes; Featured Speakers (2.) generate the databases essential for model development; (3.) provide the framework for the computational models capable of predicting the evolution of corrosion damage with SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 time and estimate the lifetimes of waste containers and the release rates of radionuclides; and (4.) provide the essential For the Rest of Us… feedback required for the engineering design of optimized 1830h, Hall H, Level U2-Blue barriers able to provide adequate performance at reasonable cost. DAVID SHOESMITH is a professor in the Department of Electrochemistry and the Chemistry at the University of Western Ontario (London, ON, Performance Assessment of Canada) and specializes in research on the electrochemistry, Nuclear Waste under Permanent surface analysis, and corrosion of materials. He has held Disposal Conditions this appointment since June 1, 1998, and is the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and by David Shoesmith Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NSERC/NWMO) Industrial Research Chair holder in Nuclear Fuel Disposal All national programs for the Chemistry (since November 2000). Initially a five-year permanent disposal of high level appointment, this chair was renewed for a further five years nuclear waste involve its containment in November 2005. Previously, he worked for Atomic Energy within a deep geological repository. These repository concepts of Canada Ltd. for 25 years, achieving the rank of principal are based on multiple barriers to radionuclide release with scientist. Since 1980 he has been an active researcher in no common mode of failure. Within this sequence, the the Canadian Nuclear Waste Disposal Program, and is a waste form itself (most commonly the spent fuel discharged recognized international expert on waste form and waste from a reactor) and the metallic container within which container issues. He is an elected fellow of the National it is sealed are the key engineered (as opposed to natural Association of Corrosion Engineers (1996) and the Canadian geologic) barriers. The key geological property controlling Society for Chemistry (1985). He has won awards from container corrosion, and waste form corrosion inside a ECS (Lash Miller), the Canadian Society for Chemistry, failed container, will be the groundwater redox condition the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Cohen that will evolve with time as environmental oxidants in Award), Atomic Energy of Canada (Discovery Award), and a the groundwater are consumed and the radiation fields that University of Western Ontario Distinguished Professorship. He is currently funded by waste management organizations F 14 The Electrochemical Society Interface • Fall 2009 F in Canada, Sweden, and Switzerland. He has served on ECS Carl Wagner Award Lecture program review boards in Switzerland, USA, and France, 1350h, Hall N, Level 01-Green and as a consultant on corrosion issues for many nuclear and non-nuclear companies. He has written over 350 publications, 210 of which are in refereed journals and Electrochemistry in Synthetic and conference proceedings. Biological Nanopores by Henry White MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Prof. White’s talk will describe recent investigations of molecular Plenary Session and particle transport in synthetic 0730h, Hall D, Level U2-Blue nanopores and protein ion channels. The work of his research group The ECS Lecture has focused on the use of nanopores for single molecule detection, particle analysis, and sequencing of biopolymers Electrochemical Design of Novel (e.g., DNA) using glass and quartz nanopore membranes. Zinc Alloys for the Corrosion HENRY S. WHITE received a BS in chemistry from the University of North Carolina (1978) and a PhD in chemistry Protection of Steel from the University of Texas (1983). Following a postdoctoral by Martin Stratmann appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering Novel zinc alloy coatings containing and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. During Mg and other additives are the subject a nine-year period at Minnesota, he was a McKnight and a of current cutting edge research in corrosion science as they Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering. In 1993, he moved seem to possess significantly improved corrosion properties. to the University of Utah, where he is currently is Distinguished ViennaVienna In this presentation, not only the latest results on zinc Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry. and its alloys are shown, but a vision of systematic coating Prof. White and his students have made contributions development will be given. in several areas of electrochemistry including pioneering MARTIN STRATMANN studied chemistry at the Ruhr research on electrochemistry using nanoscale electrodes, welcomewelcome and the development of a theory describing voltammetry Universität Bochum and received his diploma in 1980. In 1982, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in of surface-confined redox and acid-based molecules and Düsseldorf (H. J. Engell, Director), he finished his PhD on molecular transport within electrical double layers. White and electrochemical studies of phase transformations in rust coworkers developed scanning electrochemical microscopy layers; and he spent his postdoctoral studies with Ernest to visualize and identify transport pathways through human Yeager at Case Western Reserve University. The habilitation skin and contributed to materials synthesis in microfluidic in Physical Chemistry followed in 1992 at the University of channels, demonstrating the application of laminar flow MEETING SECTION MEETING SECTION streamlines to control the growth of polymer fibers. His Düsseldorf with electrochemical studies on metal surfaces covered with ultrathin electrolyte layers. 1994 he took over group recently developed an ion channel recording platform the Chair in corrosion science and surface engineering at based on nanometer-scale orifices in glass membranes that is the University of Erlangen, and since 2000 he has been a being applied for DNA sequencing and stochastic sensors. scientific member of the Max Planck Society and Director Prof. White is a past Vice-Chair and Chair of the ECS of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf, Twin Cities Section, and has organized a number of ECS leading a department of interface chemistry and surface symposia over the past 25 years. He is currently an Associate engineering. He is also a faculty member of the Materials Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Prof. Science Department and of the Chemistry Department at White has been recognized for educational contributions SPECIAL the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. at the University of Utah, including the W. W. Epstein SPECIAL Prof. Stratmann’s research interests lie in the area of Outstanding Educator Award and the Associated Students F corrosion-related electrochemistry with an emphasis on of the University of Utah Teaching Award. He is actively F microscopic aspects and in situ spectroscopy, electrochemistry involved in undergraduate research, having supervised ~50 at buried metal/polymer interfaces (an area where he undergraduates and high school students over a 25-year pioneered novel electrochemical techniques), atmospheric period. He is the recipient of the D. C. Grahame Award corrosion, adhesion, and surface chemistry of reactive metal of the ECS Physical Electrochemistry Division, the C. N. substrates. He has received a number of awards, among Reilley Award of the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, others the Otto-Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society, the the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry Vienna T. P. Hoar Award (twice), the Masing Award of the German (Electrochemistry Group), and the ACS Analytical Division Vienna Society of Materials Science, the DECHEMA Award of the