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Energy conversion technologies are central to sustainable development, electrification, and the efficient use of renewable and waste energy resources. Progress in transforming heat, chemical, solar, mechanical, and electrochemical energy into electricity and fuels depends on materials with precisely controlled electrical, thermal, ionic, catalytic, and electromechanical properties. Ceramic and electroceramic materials are especially important in these systems because they combine stability under demanding environments with tunable defects, interfaces, and coupled transport behavior.
This symposium will bring together researchers, engineers, and technology developers working across academia, national laboratories, and industry to highlight recent advances in energy materials for conversion technologies. Emphasis will be placed on ceramic and ceramic-enabled materials for thermoelectric and thermionic conversion, solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells, photo/electrochemical conversion, catalysis, and multifunctional coupled phenomena. Researchers and scientists working in ceramic-based energy materials and related fields are invited to participate in this symposium sponsored by the ACerS Energy Materials & Systems Division.
Abstracts are solicited in (but not limited to) the following topics:
Materials for solid-state energy conversion and coupled transport phenomena (thermoelectric, thermionic, piezoelectric, electrostrictive, pyroelectric, ferroelectric, and charge-heat-mechanical coupling phenomena)
Thermoelectric materials, modules, and systems for waste-heat-to-electricity conversion
Interfaces, defects, microstructure, and dimensionality effects governing charge, heat, and ionic transport in energy conversion materials
Advanced characterization, operando methods, theoretical modeling, and data-driven approaches for energy conversion materials and devices |