Liu, Yu (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
In this thesis, it is detailed the bottom-up production and characterization of thermoelectric (TE) nanomaterials with significant enhanced performance by using colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) as building ...
Yang, Dawei (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have attracted extensive research interest for the development of advanced energy storage technology. However, the practical implementation of LSBs still suffers from ...
Yu, Zhang (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)
The bottom-up engineering of nanomaterials using solution-processing strategies is of particular interest for reducing cost and optimizing the performance of TE materials and devices. This thesis focuses ...
Berestok, Taisiia (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis focuses on different aspects of NCs colloidal synthesis, the exploration of the relevant surface chemistries that afford NC assembly and the NC implementation into porous nanomaterials. The ...
Li, Mengyao (Date of defense: 2022-01-17)
TE devices have countless potential application, but their high manufacturing and material costs hamper their cost-effectiveness and limit their widespread implementation. To overcome these drawbacks, ...