UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

Exploiting quantum and phonon interference for molecular thermoelectricity and Seebeck sensing

This projects aims to exploit room-temperature quantum and phonon interference in radically-new cross-plane nanodevice architectures to design new high-efficiency thermoelectric materials and devices for converting waste heat into electricity. Furthermore, MoQPI aims to explore the potential of utilising the Seebeck coefficient of molecular-scale devices for the discriminating sensing of biomolecules (Seebeck sensing).

Advisory Board and Project Partners

Professor Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK

Professor Chris Ford, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

Professor Nicolás Agraït, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Dr. Bernd Gotsmann, IBM-Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

Dr. Shi-Xia Liu, Departement für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern, Switzerland