This talk was given on April 6, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series, sponsored by IHS-CERA. - About the Speaker - The John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science at Cornell, Frank DiSalvo is the co-director of the Center for Future Energy Systems and the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society and Materials Research Society. He serves on the Department of Energy's Basic Energy Science Advisory Committee and has authored or co-authored more than 450 professional papers. DiSalvo received his B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966 and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1971, following which he joined the research staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies), where he later headed several research departments. He joined Cornell¿s chemistry department (now the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology) in 1986.