题目：Engineering Energy Conversion and Heat Transfer In Nanostructures

报告人：Gang Chen

Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Department，Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA 02139

时间：7月4日（周三） 15：00

地点：系馆报告厅

简介：In this talk, I will give a few examples from our research in exploring nanostructures to improve energy conversion and thermal systems. In the first example, I will discuss flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators we developed, together with efforts in computing and measuring phonon mean free path in solids for improving nanostructured thermoelectric materials. In another example, I will discuss our recent studies on heat transfer mechanisms in nanofluids and thermal regulation of materials properties via first-order phase transition. Finally, I will discuss light trapping in crystalline silicon thin-film solar cells, aiming at reducing cost of photovoltaic energy conversion.

Dr. Gang Chen is currently the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained his bachelor and master degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley in 1993 working under then Chancellor chang-Lin Tien. He was a faculty member at Duke University (1993-1997), University of California at Los Angeles (1997-2001),before joining MIT in 2001. He is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the R&D100 Award, and the MIT McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Guggenheim Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, and an ASME Fellow. He has published extensively in the area of nanoscale energy transport and conversion and nanoscale heat transfer. He is the director of Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center funded by the US DOE’s Energy Frontier Research Centers program.