Morning Session

Monday, May 13, 2013: 08:10-12:00
Conference Room G, Mezzanine Level (Sheraton)
Chair:
Thomas A. Zawodzinski
08:10
Introductory Remarks
08:20
09:00
Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Proton Conducting Membranes for Pemfcs: Synthesis, Properties and Relaxations
Vito Di Noto, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova; Enrico Negro, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova; Sandra Lavina, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova; Keti Vezzů, Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, University of Venice “Ca' Foscari”; Giuseppe Pace, Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies, ISTM-CNR and INSTM
09:40
Break
10:00
10:40
A Tutorial on Alternate Proton Conducting Membranes
S. R. Narayanan, University of Southern California; G. K. Surya Prakash, University of Southern California
11:20
Elucidating Structure/Function Relations in PEMs with Multiscale Simulations
Stephen J. Paddison, Ph.D., The University of Tennessee