JNTE 2022 : National Thermoelectric Days
The JNTEs were organized in person by the Institute of Chemical Sciences of Rennes (ISCR-UMR6226) from July 11 to 13, 2022, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR). This national event allowed around 50 participants from the laboratories of the French “thermoelectricity” community to present their recent results in the form of oral presentations or posters.
The event was structured around (i) thematic training based on the skills and specificities of the ISCR (see below) and (ii) a conference around the “Applications”, “Low-Dimensional Materials”, “Bulk materials” and “Theory” sessions.
The 5 training sessions took place over 2 half-days (Monday July 11, 2022 afternoon and Tuesday July 12, 2022 morning):
– Introduction, principles and applications of thermoelectricity (Bertrand Lenoir). link pdf
– Synthesis methods and shaping in solid state chemistry (Mathieu Pasturel). link pdf
– Structural and spectroscopic analyzes (Carmelo Prestipino). link pdf
– In silico modeling and simulation (Régis Gautier). link pdf
– Crystallochemistry and relationships to the thermoelectric properties of transition metal chalcogenides (Pierric Lemoine). link pdf
The following two half-days, devoted to the conference, allowed participants to attend 16 oral presentations given mainly by doctoral students and young researchers, as well as two invited presentations, during which Nicolas Stein (IJL, Metz ) gave an overview of his work devoted to electrodeposition synthesis and the study of the properties of thin SnSe films, and Sawako Nakamae (CEA, Saclay) an overview of his work devoted to liquid thermoelectric systems.
These days concluded with the award of the 2022 thesis prize to Isaac Haïk Dunn, who carried out his thesis work at CRISMAT in Caen. Isaac is rewarded for his work entitled “Thermoelectricity: from absolute calibration to autonomous sensors” which brought together a study of a TE generator to power sensors measuring the temperature and the relative humidity level in the atmosphere and the measurement of the Thomson effect in metals and anisotropic materials. This thesis prize was sponsored this year by the company Moïz (Grenoble).
Link to the full program and summaries of oral presentations and posters (pdf)