2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Nanomaterials for Thermal-to-Electric Conversion I

More than 80% of current world energy needs are met through fossil fuels and more than 60% of this energy is released to the environment as "waste heat". Recent efforts to convert either solar-thermal or waste heat energy into electricity will be presented here, along with present challenges and opportunities.

Chair

Hung-Ta Wang, University of Alabama

Co-Chairs

Prashant Nagpal, University of Colorado Boulder
Yue Wu, Purdue University

Presentations

03:15 PM

(558a) Thermoelectric Properties of Ultra-Long PbSe Hollow Nanofibers
Nosang Myung, Miluo Zhang, Hyunsung Jung, Hosik Park, Jiwon Kim, Seil Kim, Jae-Hong Lim, Yong-ho Choa

03:45 PM

(558b) Thermal Transport in Nanocrystal Arrays and Self Assembled Monolayers
Wee-Liat Ong, Sara Rupich, Shubhaditya Majumdar, Dmitri V. Talapin, Alan J. H. McGaughey, Jonathan A. Malen

04:15 PM

(558c) Thermoelectric Nanocomposites of Layered Chalogenide Bi2(Te/Se)3 Nanoplateletes and Their Interfacial Effects
Ajay Soni, Qihua Xiong

04:45 PM

(558d) Advanced Nanocomposite Fibers for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting and Motion Sensing
Yue Wu, Scott Finefrock

05:15 PM

(558e) Development of a Nanocatalytic Microcombustor Power Device
Smitesh Bakrania, Dylan McNally

05:33 PM

(558f) Templated Fabrication and Characterization of Thermoelectric Nanowire Arrays - Toward Power-Dense and Efficient Devices
Justin J. Hill, Leigh A. Crosser, Gregory Chester, Paul E. Yelvington

05:51 PM

(558g) Discovering Materials With Ultra-Low Work Functions for Thermionics Energy Conversion
Sharon H. Chou, Johannes Voss, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Roger T. Howe, Frank Abild-Pedersen