A general strategy for high-throughput experimental screening of promising bulk thermoelectric materials

Modeling the Thermoelectric Properties of Bulk and Nanocomposite Thermoelectric Materials

Thermoelectric materials are materials which are capable of converting heat directly into electricity. They have long been used in specialized fields where high reliability is needed, such as space power generation. Recently, certain nanostructured materials have been fabricated with high thermoelectric properties than those of commercial bulk materials, leading to a renewed interest in thermoe...

Workflow for High Throughput Screening of Gas Sensing Materials

The workflow of a high throughput screening setup for the rapid identification of new and improved sensor materials is presented. The polyol method was applied to prepare nanoparticular metal oxides as base materials, which were functionalised by surface doping. Using multi-electrode substrates and high throughput impedance spectroscopy (HT-IS) a wide range of materials could be screened in a s...

Novel sensitive high-throughput screening strategy for nitrilase-producing strains.

Nitrilases have found wide use in the pharmaceutical industry for the production of fine chemicals, and it is important to have a method by which to screen libraries of isolated or engineered nitrilase variants (including bacteria and fungi). The conventional methods, such as high-performance liquid chromatography, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, capillary electrophoresis, or gas chrom...

Experimental Design for Combinatorial and High Throughput Materials Development

Apparatus for Seebeck coefficient and electrical resistivity measurements of bulk thermoelectric materials at high temperature

A high temperature Seebeck coefficient and electrical resistivity measurement apparatus has been designed and built for measuring advanced thermoelectric materials. The apparatus covers the range of temperatures from 300 to 1300 K. Different sources of errors involved in the two measurements are discussed. The accuracy of the electrical resistivity measurement is estimated to be better than ±1%...