| Abstract Scope |
LINK (Laboratory for Innovative Key Materials and Structures) is a Japanese-French joint laboratory between French CNRS, Saint-Gobain company, and National Institute for Materials Science, located at NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan. Our activity focus on the synthesis of new functional materials for energy and environment applications from functionalized glasses for building materials to high temperature thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery in industrial furnaces. Here, I will briefly introduce our activities on functional nanocomposite materials (thin films), before presenting our work on thermoelectric materials with potential industrial applications to harvest waste heat and convert it into usable energy [1]. We focused our attention on environmentally-friendly thermoelectric compounds which not only exhibits high performance, but also possess the potential to be produced on large scale such as higher manganese silicide compounds.
References
[1] T. Mori, Novel Principles and Nanostructuring Methods for Enhanced Thermoelectrics. Small 2017, 13, 1702013 |