PhD Scholarship: Ab Initio Thermoelectric Transport Calculations Coupled to Large-scale Nanostructured Materials

4 weeks ago


Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom University of Warwick Full time

Discipline:

Engineering & Technology

Energy

Sustainability

Thermoelectric materials

Other Engineering

Qualification: Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (PhD)

Start date: 30th September 2024

Application deadline: 30th June 2024

Funding period: 3.5 years

Supervisors: Professor Neophytos Neophytou

Project Description:

The need for energy sustainability and the environmental consequences of fossil fuels make Technologies for clean energy imperative. Thermoelectric (TE) materials can harvest enormous amounts of waste heat and convert it into useful electrical power. As 60% of our energy is lost in heat during conversion processes, the realisation of efficient and scalable TEs can transform the energy-use/savings landscape. However, TEs suffer from low conversion efficiencies.

Over the last years, however, advancements in synthesis and growth have realised many materials with complex electronic structures with a high internal degree of Nanostructuring, with the potential for exceptional performance improvements. Two main directions contribute towards this: i) the electronic structures of these materials consist of rich features such as many bands and valleys, elongated shapes and different effective masses, and topological features which offer ballistic transport, to name a few; and ii) nanostructuring, with disorder introduced hierarchically at the atomic scale, the nanoscale (



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