The 13th Pacific Rim Conference of Ceramic Societies(PACRIM13)
October 27 - November 1, 2019 Okinawa Convention Center, Japan
List of symposium (as of February 1, 2019)

Symposium 25:
Direct Thermal-to-Electrical Energy Conversion Materials and Thermal Energy
Harnessing Challenges
Thermal energy conversion and harnessing - TECH - is one of the ultimate challenges in science and technology tomake our modern society more efficient as well as environmentally benign. Scientific and technological progress inmaterials design and synthesis has always been a key to develop direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion andrelated technologies. Moreover, recent advances in nanotechnology have elicited unconventional thermal transport
across nanostructured materials and nano-interfaces, realizing a novel means to harness thermal energy. This symposiumprovides an open forum to highlight up-to-date theoretical ideas, new materials, and new device concepts andapplications by focusing on novel processing and synthesis methods, materials, technologies, and applications related
to direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion and thermal energy harnessing. Thermal, electrical, and mechanicalproperties of new materials and processing of those materials into device structures will also be emphasized. It also
highlights theoretical insight and materials innovations in unconventional heat transfer that enables us novel approaches
toward higher efficiency and revolutionary technologies in thermal energy harvesting and heat management.
<PROPOSED SESSION TOPICS>•High-efficiency bulk thermoelectric materials•Nanoscale thermoelectric materials and nanocomposites (nanomaterials and inherent nanostructures in bulk
thermoelectric material matrices)•Theoretical studies on material transport properties, band structures, crystal chemistry, thermodynamic analysis, andenergy transfer for high-efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion•Oxides and other materials with strong electron correlation and spin freedom exploitation•Thermionics and other related topics•New capabilities in solid-state synthesis, bulk materials, thin films, superlattices, nano-interfaces, and nanostructured
materials for novel materials and compounds•Processing of bulk and thin-film nanostructured materials•Inorganic/organic hybrids and nanocarbon materials for energy harvesting and flexible/wearable thermoelectric applications•New developments in material property and device performance measurements/ metrology•Novel ideas, materials, and device concepts for thermal energy harnessing•Phase transformation, thermal conductivity switching, and defect engineering in inorganic and organic solids forthermal energy harnessing•Phonon engineering and emerging thermal transport technologies•Phonon transmission and scattering across nano-interfaces•Design, performance testing, fabrication, and processing of thermal energy conversion devices•Device performance requirements for future TECH applications<ORGANIZERS>
Michitaka Ohtaki, Kyushu University, Japan, email: ohtaki@kyudai.jp
Takao Mori, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Lidong Chen, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, China
Wonseon Seo, Korea Institute of Ceramic Eng. & Tech., Korea
Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Emmanuel Guilmeau, CNRS-CRISMAT, France
H.-T. Lin, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Koji Miyazaki, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Min-Wook Oh, Hanbat National University, Korea
Junichiro Shiomi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Chunlei Wan, Tsinghua University, China
Anke Weidenkaff, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mona Zebarjadi, University of Virginia, USA<INVITED LECTURES>
Tentative invited lecture information is posted in the following URL;
http://www.ceramic.or.jp/pacrim13/list_of_invited_speakers.html#25
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