2015 AIChE Annual Meeting Proceedings

Session: Nanomaterials for Thermal-to-Electric Conversion

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

Prashant Nagpal, University of Colorado

Co-Chair

Sang Eon Han, University of New Mexico

Presentations

03:15 PM

(218a) Solar Evaporation Enhancment Using Floating Copper Oxide Deposited Cellulose Paper
Amin Yoosefi Booshehri, Rong Xu

03:40 PM

(218b) Bottom-up Assembly of Metal Silicide Nanowires into Highly Efficient Bulk Thermoelectrics
Sreeram Vaddiraju, Venkata Vasiraju, Yongmin Kang

04:05 PM

(218c) Omni-Thermoelectrics: Atomically Convertible p/n Nanowire Inks for Flexible Generators
Ayaskanta Sahu, Boris Russ, Miao Liu, Fan Yang, Jason Forster, Raffaella Buonsanti, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Chris Dames, Kristin Persson, Jeffrey Urban, Rachel Segalman

04:30 PM

(218d) Computational Study of Thermal Transport in Si-Ge Nanostructures - Exploration of Phonon Scattering Contributions to Suppressed Conductivity
Alexander Pak, Yongjin Lee, Gyeong Hwang

04:55 PM

(218e) A Comparative Study of Two Narrow Gap Semiconductors FeGa3 and FeSb2
Lianyang Dong, Theo Siegrist