Ken Lau
At the 2018 European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France on June 19, 2018, Professor Lau delivered the invited talk, titled “iCVD and oCVD Polymers for Energy Capture and Storage.” The talk was given during the session on “Polymer and Hybrid Thin Films from Innovative Deposition Techniques to Functional Devices,” and it centered on Prof. Lau’s research in the chemical vapor deposition of polymer thin films and devices for sustainable energy. The session was held over a period of four days and brought researchers from academia, industry and government from around the world, including MIT (USA), Stanford (USA), LLNL (USA), KAIST (South Korea), CNRS (France), TU Graz (Austria), NTU (Singapore), IIT Kharagpur (India), and TEL (Japan). In addition, Prof. Lau’s Ph.D. student, Zhengtao Chen, also gave a talk titled “Engineering iCVD Polymers on Heterogeneous Substrates” at the same conference.
On June 29, 2018 Prof. Ken Lau presented an invited lecture at the University of Groningen. The talk was given in the Product Technology group of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the invitation of Prof. Ranjita Bose, a Ph.D. graduate (Drexel ’11) from Prof. Ken Lau’s lab. The talk covered the recent research activities of Prof. Lau’s lab, particularly in the development of novel polymer processing technologies.
At the 256th American Chemical Society National Meeting held in Boston, MA this August, Prof. Lau presented a talk titled, “Enabling Energy Storage Devices Through Chemical Vapor Deposition Fabrication Approaches.” During the talk, Lau discussed the latest discoveries in the application of nanometer-thin CVD films of redox active polymers to enhance energy storage capacity of carbon supercapacitors and to stabilize high energy density cathode materials in lithium ion batteries.
Prof. Kenneth Lau presented an invited lecture at the 10th International Hot Wire and Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition Conference (HWCVD10) on September 3, 2018 in Kitakyushu, Japan. The conference brought together international speakers and attendees from Japan, South Korea, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Finland, South Africa, Canada, and the USA. The talk, titled “The Highs and Lows of iCVD,” detailed Prof. Lau’s work at Drexel University in advancing the iCVD technology in the areas of energy and advanced polymer composites. Prof. Lau also chaired the Keynote Lecture presented by Dr. Lothar Schäfer, the Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institue for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST.