2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

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

Sang Eon Han, University of New Mexico

Co-Chair

Ayaskanta Sahu, New York University

Presentations

03:30 PM

(40a) Engineering Macroscale Thermoelectric Transport By Chemical Modulation of Nanoscale Interfaces
Jeffrey Urban

04:02 PM

(40b) Doped Semiconducting Polymers As Solution-Processable Thermoelectric Materials
Shrayesh N. Patel, Anne M. Glaudell, Michael L. Chabinyc

04:28 PM

(40c) Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport Coefficients in Graphene
Enrique Munoz

04:44 PM

(40d) Carrier Scattering at Alloy Nanointerfaces Enhances Power Factor in PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Thermoelectrics
Edmond W. Zaia, Ayaskanta Sahu, Preston Zhou, Madeleine P. Gordon, Jason Forster, Shaul Aloni, Yi-Sheng Liu, Jinghua Guo, Jeffrey Urban

05:00 PM

(40e) Combining Density Functional Theory Calculations, Supercomputing, and Data-Driven Methods to Design New Thermoelectric Materials
Anubhav Jain, Umut Aydemir, Hong Zhu, Jan Pohls, Zachary Gibbs, Wei Chen, Saneyuki Ohno, Geoffroy Hautier, Gerbrand Ceder, Kristin Persson, Mary Anne White, G. Jeffrey Snyder

05:16 PM

(40f) Phase Diagram, Microstructure and Thermoelectric Properties
Sinn-wen Chen, Shi-Ting Lu, Jui-shen Chang, Hsin-jay Wu

05:32 PM

(40g) Shaping the Spectrum of Thermal Radiation Using Nanostructured Materials for Efficient Thermophotovoltaic Power Generation
Andrej Lenert