Sponsor: Foothill Section
San Fernando Valley Section Chapter, PE31
Coastal Los Angeles Section Affinity Group, LM
Speaker: Shudipto Konika Dishari

Date: 19 May 2026
Time: 06:00 PM PDT to 07:00 PM PDT
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Reservations: IEEE
Summary:
Advancing the design of electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices is critical to generating electricity in a clean, sustainable manner for industry, transportation sectors, and beyond. Achieving these goals requires not only a deep understanding of state-of-the-art materials but also the development of more efficient next-generation alternatives that are both efficient and sustainable.

This talk will highlight our efforts to harness nature’s arts for a greener start in energy conversion and storage devices. Specifically, I will present our efforts to leverage plant-based feedstocks and nature-inspired design principles to create unique, durable, fluorine-free solid polymer electrolytes to boost ion transport at electrode interfaces and membranes.
Bio: Shudipto Dishari is the Ross McCollum Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Dishari completed her post-doctoral training at Penn State, working at Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical Engineering, and earned her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Her research centers on the design of synthetic, bio-derived and nature-inspired polymeric nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on interfacial phenomena and materials under confinement. These materials are central to advancing sustainable energy and biomedical systems.