Program
11.00-13.00 Open Seminar
11.00-11.05 Welcome by Sabrina Sartori, Physics Department, UiO
11.05-11.45 Lecture on “Thermoelectric power generators” by Prof. Anke Weidenkaff
11.45-12.00 Questions from the public
12.00-13.00 Open informal lunch/discussion
13:00 End Open Seminar
Abstract
Dr. Anke Weidenkaff is the Head of Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis at EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Switzerland. She is also Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern.
She is one of the leading scientists in the field of thermoelectric materials for energy conversion and storage, such as heat recovery in a vehicle, high temperature thermoelectric solar electricity generator, exhaust gas catalysis.
This talk will discuss the principles of thermoelectricity and the development of novel perovskite-type oxides and oxynitrides, half-Heusler compounds and nano-composite materials.