Thermoelectric Materials and Devices for Sustainable Energy Utilization

Thermal energy conversion and harnessing are ultimate goals in terms of energy strategy and efficiency of our global society. Scientific and technological progress in materials design and synthesis has always been a key to develop direct thermal to electrical energy conversion and related technologies. Exciting progress has been made in the field of thermoelectricity through the deepened understanding of microstructures and transport mechanisms, the development of new processing methods, the discovery of new thermoelectric materials, and the integration of these materials into high-performance modules. This symposium provides an open forum to highlight up-to-date theoretical ideas, new materials, and new device concepts and applications by focusing on novel processing and synthesis methods, materials, technologies, and applications related to direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion and thermal energy harnessing.

Proposed sessions

ª High-efficiency bulk thermoelectric materials

ª Nanoscale thermoelectric materials and nanocomposites

ª Theoretical studies on material transport properties, band structures, phonon engineering, and energy

transfer for high-efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion

ª Design for the high-efficiency thermoelectric materials through machine learning, high-throughput

calculations, phase diagram etc.

ª Oxides and other materials with strong electron correlation and spin freedom exploitation

ª New capabilities in synthesis, measurements for bulk materials, thin films, superlattices, nano-interfaces,

and nanostructured materials

ª Design, performance testing, fabrication, and processing of thermal energy conversion devices for power

generation or solid cooling

ª Flexible/wearable thermoelectric materials and devices

ª Thermoelectric applications and system integration

ª Thermionics and other related topics

Organizers

- Xun Shi (Points of Contact), Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China,

xshi@mail.sic.ac.cn

- Qian Zhang (Points of Contact), Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China, zhangqf@hit.edu.cn

- Weishu Liu (Points of Contact), Southern University of Science and Technology, China,

liuws@sustech.edu.cn

- Zhifeng Ren, University of Houston, USA

- G. Jeffrey Snyder, Northwestern University, USA

- Takao Mori, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

- Qingyu Yan, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore

- Woochul Kim, Yonsei University, Korea

- Ryoji Funahashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

- Hee Seok Kim, University of Washinton, USA

- Juri Grin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany

Keynote Speakers

G. Jeffrey Snyder, Northwestern University, USA
Tentative Title: To be confirmed
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Zhifeng Ren, University of Houston, USA
Tentative Title: To be confirmed
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Zhigang Chen, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Tentative Title: To be confirmed
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Tiejun Zhu , Zhejiang University, China
Tentative Title: To be confirmed
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Xinfeng Tang, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Tentative Title: To be confirmed
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Invited Speakers