This special section on energy storage will include five articles that cover various types of batteries and energy storage mechanisms for stationary energy storage, as well as the state of the industry and its importance to our future. ...
Dr. Meng Deng is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, School of Materials Engineering, and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. He received a B.E. in Chemical Engineering in 2004 from Tsinghua University, China and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2010. His postdoctoral research with Dr. Cato Laurencin at the University of Connecticut Health Center was focused on development of osteoinductive materials for bone regeneration. He also worked in the laboratory of Professor...Read more
Dr. Bikramjit Basu is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has been pursuing research at the confluence of Materials Science, Biological Science and Medicine. His research group has effectively applied the principles and tools of these disciplines to develop next generation implants and bioengineering solutions to address unmet clinical needs for musculoskeletal, dental, and neurosurgical applications. Encompassing experimental discovery, theoretical predictions, computational analysis, and clinical translational research, his research group has laid the...Read more
Dr. Wu is a principal environmental system analyst at Argonne National Laboratory and the Principal Investigator of a multi-year water analysis project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. Her research interests in are water use, water quality, water resource availability, and wastewater management as related to the development of conventional and renewable energy. Wu is the principal author of a spatially explicit online model, WATER (Water Analysis Tool for Energy Resources), which develops water footprint of biofuels including conventional, cellulosic, and algal feedstock and...Read more
Tal Danino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. His lab focuses on engineering bacteria for biomedical applications, with a particular emphasis on been developing bacteria as a cancer therapy. Originally from Los Angeles, Tal received a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UCSD and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. He is the recipient of awards including the NSF CAREER Award, Era of Hope Scholar Award, TED Fellow, and NIH Pathway to Independence Award. He directs the Synthetic Biological Systems Laboratory and is a member of the Herbert...Read more
