[E&S-seminars] Feb. 25 - Nanotechnology: Enabling Efficient Direct Energy Conversion

[Karen Gibson]

Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
<http://lfee.mit.edu>


Nanotechnology: Enabling Efficient Direct Energy Conversion

Gang Chen
Mechanical Engineering Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, February 25
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Room E40-496

Abstract
Nanotechnology represents a "small" world, while energy systems are 
big.  How nanotechnology may impact energy conversion?  In this talk, 
I will discuss the potential of nanotechnology in enabling efficient, 
direct, thermal to electric energy conversion systems.  The 
efficiency of these systems is often limited by materials properties. 
Through the use of nanostructures to engineer the transport of 
electrons, phonons, and photons, new nanostructured-materials are 
being developed that hold the promise to significantly change the 
landscape of energy conversion.

Light refreshments will be provided.
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