Seminar: Nanostructuring and Additive Manufacturing Towards High-Performance Thermoelectric Energy and Sensor Systems
Scott Laboratory
Scott Laboratory
E141
201 W 19th Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
United States
Abstract
Nano engineering and additive manufacturing methods have led to many scientific and technology breakthroughs for energy and sensor related applications.
This talk will discuss several topics. First, this talk will present fundamental study of thermal and thermoelectric transport properties in nanostructured materials fabricated using scalable nanomanufacturing methods, which have led to significant increases in thermoelectric figure of merit ZT. Second, this talk will discuss novel additive manufacturing and interface engineering methods to fabricate efficient and flexible thermoelectric devices using colloidal nanocrystals which resulted in unprecedented high power density and ultralow cost. Third, this talk will discuss printed sensors and thermoelectric energy harvesters for in-pile sensing and energy harvesting for nuclear energy applications.
About the speaker
Yanliang Zhang is an assistant professor and the principal investigator of the Advanced Manufacturing and Energy Lab in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2011. He is a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation Career Award, an IBM Fellowship awardee, and has received multiple best paper awards at international conferences. Zhang’s research has been sponsored by prestigious funding awards from the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, and he has directed several major multi-institutional research projects. Zhang’s research work has been published in top scientific journals of high impact, including Nature Materials, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Energy Letters, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Physics Letters and more.
Hosted by Professor Raymond Cao.