Dr. Jeff Snyder from California Institute of Technology Visited SICCAS
Dr. Jeff Snyder presented an interesting and impressive lecture entitled” Zintl Chemistry for Designing High Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials”, which introduced his recent studies on using Zintl rule and theoretical calculations to design novel thermoelectric materials. The systemic studies of three compounds, Yb14MnSb11, Ba8Ga16Ge30 and la2Te3, were presented to give an example to show how the properties are optimized to realize high thermoelectric performance via theoretical calculations. Dr. Jeff Snyder also proposed the possible directions for the future study to achieve high efficiency thermoelectric materials. Prof. Wenqing Zhang as well as many other professors, research staffs and graduate students in SICCAS attended the lecture and had a detailed discussion with Dr. Jeff Snyder.