{"id":6904,"date":"2017-03-03T07:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T07:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2017-03-08T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:04:54","slug":"from-atoms-to-devices-materials-design-for-new-energy-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/03\/from-atoms-to-devices-materials-design-for-new-energy-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"From Atoms to Devices: materials design for new energy technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The I-SEE seminar on Tuesday 7 March is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>From atoms to devices: materials\u00a0design for new energy technologies<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and is given by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/a.walsh\">Aron Walsh<\/a>, Professor of Materials Design in the Department of Materials at\u00a0Imperial. \u00a0Here's the Abstract<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The discovery of functional materials, tailored for applications in energy conversion and storage, is now possible by combining theoretical chemistry with high-performance computation. \u00a0The toolkit for materials modelling is becoming increasingly predictive and powerful, with a recent emphasis being placed on data mining and informatics. \u00a0 I will critically discuss the past and future contributions of materials theory and simulation to the development of new energy technologies, including light-to-electricity conversion in photovoltaic cells and heat-to-electricity conversion in thermoelectric cells. \u00a0Particular attention will be paid to hybrid halide perovskites which in addition to becoming champion thin-film solar energy materials, demonstrate how new materials have the potential to displace existing technologies in a short timeframe. \u00a0I will discuss the challenges for materials design including the development of robust application-specific performance descriptors that can be accurately measured and calculated, and combine to give a quantitative figure of merit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would seem that Professor Walsh thinks that technology might have a role to play in our renewable energy futures. \u00a0The session is free for neo-Luddites. \u00a0Further details are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/i-see\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The I-SEE seminar on Tuesday 7 March is: From atoms to devices: materials\u00a0design for new energy technologies and is given by Aron Walsh, Professor of Materials Design in the Department of Materials at\u00a0Imperial. \u00a0Here's the Abstract The discovery of functional...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}