H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2020

TELIOTES · Thermal and ELectronic Transport in Inorganic-Organic ThermoElectric Superlattices

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-10-01 → 2020-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 158 122 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Термоелектричните суперрешетки от неорганични и органични материали се анализират чрез симулации, за да се разбере как деформациите влияят върху ефективността им при създаване на гъвкави медицински устройства. Това помага при разработването на по-надеждни и енергоефективни термотерапевтични обервки и одеяла за пациенти.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Thermal and ELectronic Transport in Inorganic-Organic ThermoElectric Superlattices

As the global elderly population increases, further medical attention is required. In turn, this medical demand will require more reliable and energy-efficient medical devices such as therapeutic wraps and blankets. These materials can benefit from flexible wearable thermoelectric materials, which can generate cold or heat from electricity with minimal discomfort on the patient. However, little is known on how deformation and strain affect their efficiency. Therefore, this project has focused on finding the deformations that increase the thermoelectric efficiency of state-of-the-art materials. These materials are investigated with computer simulations since they have a thickness of a few nanometres, which makes an experimental study much lengthier and more expensive. This action is important to society because it shows that computer simulations can screen which of the newly-discovered two-dimensional materials have a significant potential to build thermoelectric devices. Subsequently, this project is not only aimed at policymakers and medical doctors to show them the benefits of fundamental research on thermoelectric materials, but also at the scientific community and patent engineers to provide cutting-edge results to guide them in building the next generation of medical devices.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The global older population will double its current size by 2050, reaching 2.1 billion. As a result, further medical attention for this increasing population will require a new generation of more reliable and energy-efficient medical devices. Devices such as therapeutic wraps and blankets can benefit from materials that can generate cold from electricity without moving parts, minimising the discomfort on the patient. These materials are called thermoelectrics because they convert electricity into cold or heat, or vice versa. However, their use as therapeutic tools is limited because they are currently made with brittle and often toxic compounds. Luckily, this limitation can be overcome by replacing these compounds by flexible materials such as polymers.Therefore, the goal of this action is to investigate how efficient is the generation of cold with these new polymer-based hybrid materials under different conditions. As these hybrid materials will be bent or even twisted during their use, this action goes beyond the typical studies, where their efficiency is studied in ideal conditions with no deformation, to answer the following question: how does this efficiency vary when the material is strained?This action is not only aimed at policymakers and medical doctors to show them the benefits of fundamental research on thermoelectric materials, but also at the scientific community and patent engineers to provide cutting-edge results to guide them in building the next generation of medical devices for the senior members of our communities.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridКоординаторИспания