| Scope |
Thermal management has become a critical enabling technology for electrified transportation, power electronics, data centers, manufacturing, and high-performance energy systems. Continued improvements in heat spreading, heat rejection, thermal insulation, thermal regulation, and solid-state cooling depend on materials with engineered thermal, electrical, mechanical, optical, and coupled transport properties. Ceramic and ceramic-enabled materials offer unique opportunities through high-temperature stability, tunable thermal conductivity, and control of phonons, photons, interfaces, and phase transformations.
This symposium is designed to connect materials researchers, device engineers, and system-level practitioners interested in controlling heat flow and enabling energy-efficient cooling and thermal protection. Emphasis will be placed on solid-state refrigeration and cooling, high-thermal-conductivity materials, thermal interface and heat-spreading materials, thermal barrier coatings, radiative cooling, phase-change and thermal energy storage materials, and phonon-engineered systems for device- and system-level heat control. 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:
1- Solid-state refrigeration and advanced cooling technologies (Peltier and Thomson cooling, electrocaloric, magnetocaloric, elastocaloric, barocaloric, and thermomagnetic cooling)
2- Thermoelectric, caloric, and multifunctional materials for chip-level cooling, localized refrigeration, and thermal-functional integration
3- High-thermal-conductivity ceramics, heat spreaders, heat exchangers, and thermal interface materials for heat rejection and thermal control
4- Thermal barrier and environmental barrier coatings, ultrahigh-temperature ceramics, and materials for harsh-environment thermal protection
5-Radiative cooling, optical-thermal materials, phase-change materials, thermal switches, thermal energy storage, phonon transport, characterization, and modeling |