Thermal energy conversion and harnessing is one of the ultimate challenges in science and technology. Scientific and technological progress in materials design and synthesis has always been a key to developing direct heat-to-electricity energy conversion and related technologies. Moreover, recent advances in nanotechnology have elicited unconventional thermal transport across nanostructured materials and nano-interfaces, realizing a novel means to harness thermal energy. This symposium provides an open forum to highlight cutting-edge new materials, theoretical ideas, and novel device and application concepts for direct heat-to-electricity energy conversion and thermal energy harnessing. Thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties of new materials and processing of those materials into device structures will also be emphasized. It also highlights theoretical insight and materials innovations in unconventional heat transfer that enables us novel approaches toward higher efficiency and revolutionary technologies in thermal energy harvesting and heat management.
Proposed sessions and topics of interest:
- New concepts and challenges for high-performance thermoelectric and thermionic materials
- Nanoscale thermoelectric materials and nanocomposites (nanomaterials and inherent nanostructures in bulk thermoelectric material matrices)
- Theoretical studies on transport properties, band structures, crystal chemistry, thermodynamic analysis, and energy transfer for high-efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion
- Inorganic/organic hybrids and nanocarbon materials for energy harvesting and flexible/wearable thermoelectric applications
- Phase transformation, thermal conductivity switching, and thermal rectification in inorganic and organic materials for thermal energy harnessing
Organizers:
- Michitaka Ohtaki, Kyushu University, Japan; ohtaki@kyudai.jp
- Lidong Chen, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
- Soonil Lee, Changwon National University, Korea
- Takao Mori, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Takayoshi Katase, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Sunmi Shin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Mona Zebarjadi, University of Virginia, USA
- Jing-Feng Li, Tsinghua University, China
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