When: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Where: Orca Books (509 East 4th Avenue, Olympia, Phone 360.352.0123)
Our March Topic Is: “In situ transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy studies of rechargeable batteries under dynamic operating conditions”
How does a battery work? Few people really know. Currently we are able to study the charge and discharge properties at near atomic resolution. We can see “inside” the battery to look at the dynamics and chemistry in real time. Our techniques are primarily build around using the Transmission Electron Microscope, but we also compliment this work using several installations we have built at Synchrotrons located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The talk will highlight recent work, some in-situ movies and recent publications.
In 2005, Norman Salmon co-founded Hummingbird Scientific along with Eric Stach. In the years since, Mr. Salmon has led the company’s growth and development. Mr. Salmon has been involved in precision manufacturing for over 15 years. As program manager at Lawrence Berkeley, he focused on precision mesoscale manufacturing and instrumentation for electron microscopes. He has spoken about precision manufacturing to groups around the world and consulted for more than 50 organizations, including government agencies, medical manufacturing companies, precision machine tool builders, and manufacturers of precision components. As a principal investigator at Hummingbird Scientific, Mr. Salmon has received more than $8 million of funding from the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, the U.S. Army, and the National Institute of Health. He is an active member of the American Society for Precision Engineering, Materials Research Society, and the Microscopy Society of America. Mr. Salmon earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering Technology from Western Washington University. He was born in Olympia and graduated from North Thurston High School.
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