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SUMMARY:ChBE Seminar: Designer Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting
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DESCRIPTION:With the worldwide demand for energy and thermal management rapidly accelerating\, significant focus is being provided to new environmentally clean energy resources such as solar energy on one hand while thermoelectric devices\, which can convert thermal energy to electrical energy (and vice-versa)\, are also receiving increasing attention for power generation\, waste heat recovery and solid-state cooling. For both approaches\, strategies are underway to identify materials and device architectures that are inexpensive and scalable for widespread use yet efficient compared to existing technologies. The advent of nanotechnology enables novel approaches to energy conversion that may provide both higher efficiencies and simpler manufacturing methods. However\, for this goal\, since devices typically involve electrical conduction through films of nanomaterials\, understanding and improving charge transport in these films can immediately lead to better device performance. While doping provides a general design paradigm for controlling the electronic conductivity of bulk semiconductors\, there exists no analogous strategy for homogeneous\, precise doping of colloidal semiconductor nanomaterials that affects their electronic properties. Here we will discuss the challenges in this area as well as recent progress. In particular\, we will describe approaches to dope semiconductor nanomaterials with a controllable amount of electronic impurities. The physical characterization of these materials shows that the addition of even a few impurity atoms has a dramatic effect on their optical and thermoelectric properties. Thus\, these experiments begin to reveal the properties of a new class of nanomaterials that may be important for future nano-devices. Dr. Ayaskanta Sahu is a Materials Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Molecular Foundry\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley\, California. His research focuses on investigating new classes of nanostructured hybrid materials that have promise for optoelectronic and thermoelectric energy conversion. He is particularly interested in understanding the underlying physics behind their unique size and interface dependent behavior\, with an aim to manipulate their size\, structure\, composition and doping\, and gain control over their properties and finally use this knowledge to design and synthesize novel hybrid materials with targeted properties. He has a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (2007) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota (2012). He spent a couple of years (2011-2013) at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist before joining the Materials Science Division at LBNL in 2013.             Date & Time: Thursday\, March 12th\, 9:00 am -10:00 amLocation: Abbott Auditorium\, Pancoe Pavillion*Refreshments will be available at 8:45 am)
LOCATION:Pancoe-NSUHS Life Sciences Pavilion\, Abbott Auditorium\, 2200 Campus Drive\, Evanston\, IL 60208
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URL:https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/469465
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