Group News

• Jul 30-31, 2024 Dr. Bahk, Ahmad, and Anirudh attended the 2024 NNCI Nano + Additive Manufacturing Summit held in Louisville, KY. Ahmad gave an oral presentation on his research on graphene 3D structure-based wicks for electronics cooling, and Anirudh gave a talk as well about transverse TE materials based on tilted Ti nanorods and PEDOT:PSS. Dr. Bahk served in the organizing committee of the Summit. The UC Office of Research supported this Summit as a gold sponsor. See some pictures from the Summit below:

• Jul. 11, 2024 Thiraj successfully defended his M.S. thesis on thermoelectric air conditioning systems. Congrats! 

• Jun. 28, 2024 Nitin defended his M.S. thesis on CNT fabric thermoelectrics with a huge success. Big congrats!

• May 29, 2024 Dr. Bahk attended the 245th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting held in San Francisco, CA to give an invited talk on carrier transport in carbon nanostructures, and co-chair Session B01 - Carbon Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage. 

• Jan. 8, 2023 Anirudh joined TEC lab as a new M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering. Welcome!

• Nov. 25, 2023 Ahmad et al. on TE waste heat recovery from gas turbine was published in MDPI Entropy, and selected as a cover of Vol. 25, Issue 12. Big congrats!

• Nov. 3, 2023 Dr. Kevin Walsh, Associate Dean of Engineering Research and Fife Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Louisville, visited UC for MME Distinguished Seminar and toured our labs/facilities including Digital Futures. 

• Oct. 24-25, 2023 Dr. Bahk attended IEEE PAINE 2023 in Huntsville, AL and served in the best paper award committee.

• Oct. 16, 2023 Dr. Bahk visited Dr. Jeong-Hoi Koo's lab at Miami University and toured facilities/labs of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department.

• Oct. 13, 2023 Dr. Bahk gave a talk about his PRP-funded research on CNT fabric for firefighter jacket cooling  (Nitin et al.) at the PRP Symposium 2023.

• Oct. 1-3, 2023 Dr. Bahk attended MS&T 2023 in Columbus, OH.

• Sep. 1, 2023 Isaac et al. on excluded volume for power factor enhancement was published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congrats!

• Aug. 15, 2023 Dr. Bahk was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

• Jul. 25-26, 2023 Dr. Bahk and Nilesh attended the 2023 NNCI Nano + Additive Manufacturing Summit held at Univ. Louisville, KY. Dr. Bahk served as an organizing committee member for the Summit, and Nilesh presented his research on 3-omega thermal characterization of nanocarbon-polymer composites. 

• Apr. 27, 2023 Isaac completed his Ph.D. study this semester, and attended the Spring 2023 Commencement! Hearty congratulations Isaac! See the pictures below. 

Apr. 12, 2023 Dr. Bahk has been selected as one of the 2023 URC Faculty Scholars Research Awardees. Congrats!

Dec. 9, 2022 Yu, Tien, and Kingsley graduated this semester with great success, and celebrated the Fall 2022 commencement together! See the pictures below.

Nov. 15, 2022 Nitin joined our group as a new M.S. student. Welcome Nitin!

Nov. 2, 2022 Kingsley defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations Kingsley!

Oct. 25, 2022 Yu successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations Yu!

Oct. 24, 2022 Tien successfully defended his M.S. thesis! Congratulations Tien!

Aug. 10, 2022 Dr. Bahk gave a talk on "Enhancing Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Efficiency with Nanotechnology" in the NNCI Nano + AM Summit held in Louisville, KY.

Jul. 29, 2022 Mark has received the ACRP Graduate Research Award! Congrats Mark! Great achievement!

Jun. 22, 2022 Our thermoelectric air conditioning (TEAC) team has received the PILOT grant from UC, the largest internal grant awarded for multi-disciplinary teams. 

Jun. 6, 2022 Isaac has been selected as an IRiS graduate fellow for the next academic year. This is a great honor for Isaac. Big congrats!

May 26, 2022 Isaac and Yu received the best poster award (1st place) at the IRiS Ignite Conference 2022. Great achievement for both!

May 2, 2022 We had a group lunch, for the first time since the pandemic begun in 2020! 

Apr. 29, 2022 Isaac passed his Ph.D. qualifying oral exam in the Materials Science and Engineering (MS) program. Big congrats Isaac! He is now promoted to be a Ph.D. candidate. 

Apr. 12, 2022 Our EE JCI senior team (Xingjian Chen and Xiaohang Sun) presented their senior design project on developing a data acquisition program for photoluminiscence excitation (PLE) technique at the EECS Expo. Congratulations Xingjian and Xiaohang! A picture of them and their poster at the Expo is shown below:

Mar. 2, 2022 Yu gave a seminar talk at the graduate student seminar series of the EECS Department about his research on CNT-based thermoelectric composites. 

Feb. 9, 2022 Mark has been selected for the NSF-funded I-Corps (Toledo/Akron) Spring 2022 program. Congratulations Mark!

Nov. 1, 2021 Tien joined the group as an M.S. student. Welcome to the group Tien!

Sep. 1, 2021 Ahmad, Umar, and Nilesh joined the group as new graduate students. Welcome all!

May 1, 2021 Mark and Kingsley have joined the group as new graduate students. Warmest welcome, both of you!

Mar. 1, 2021 Dr. Bahk published a new book titled "Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Devices and Systems" (World Scientific, March 2021).

Jan. 11, 2021 Isaac and Thiraj have joined the group as new PhD students. Warmest welcome both of you!

Nov. 6, 2020  Xinjie defended her MS thesis on concentrated solar thermoelectric generators with a huge success. Congrats!

Jun. 23, 2020  Pradeep defended his MS thesis successfully. Big congrats Pradeep! 

Jan. 13, 2020   Jimmy Hung and Jason Lin have joined our group as M.Eng students. Welcome all!

Dec. 16, 2019  We had a year-ending group lunch together. Photo here.

Dec. 5, 2019   Dr. Bahk gave a talk about the thermoelectric transport physics in carbon nanotube networks at MRS Fall Meeting 2019 in Boston, MA.

Nov. 6, 2019 Dr. Bahk gave an invited talk about ultra-fast thermoreflectance imaging at 2019 IEEE BCICTS conference held in Nashville, TN.

Dec. 16, 2019

We had a year-ending group lunch together. Congrats everyone on your successful year 2019, and Happy New Year 2020!

(From left: Siqi (Yu's wife), Yu, Xinjie, Dr. Bahk, Jimmy, and Pratyusha)

Dec. 5, 2019

Dr. Bahk gave a talk about the thermoelectric transport physics in carbon nanotube networks at MRS Fall Meeting 2019 in Boston, MA.

Nov. 6, 2019

Dr. Bahk gave an invited talk about ultra-fast thermoreflectance imaging at 2019 IEEE BCICTS conference held in Nashville, TN.

Oct. 22, 2019

Radhika defended her PhD dissertation with a great success. Congrats!! 

Apr. 15, 2019

Our JCI senior team (Hongda Qin, Xi Pang, Yuyang Yan, Yanan Peng) presented their senior design project on "Piezoelectric Shoes" at 2019 EECS Tech Expo with great success. Congrats all! 

(From left: Dr. Bahk, Xi Pang, Yanan Peng, Hongda Qin, and Yanyang Yan)

Apr. 15, 2019

Our senior team (Ben Palmer, Tyler Brown, Isaac Adducchio, Mitchell Egger) presented  their senior design project on "Solar-powered Autonomous Smart Home Using Internet of Things" at 2019 EECS Tech Expo with huge success. Congrats all!

(From left: Tyler Brown, Ben Palmer, Mitchell Egger, and Isaac Adducchio)

Mar. 28, 2019

Yu's first journal paper entitled "High thermoelectric power-factor composites based on flexible three-dimensional graphene and polyaniline" has been published online in Nanoscale. Big congrats!

Mar. 19, 2019

Radhika's first journal paper entitled "Tunneling-limited thermoelectric transport in carbon nanotube networks in PDMS elastomers" has been published online in ACS Appl. Energy Mater. Big congrats!  

1. 1, 2019

Happy New Year 2019.  

Dec. 15, 2018

Pratyusha and Xinjie joined the group as new graduate students. Welcome All!

Dec. 3, 2018

Darpan successfully defended his MS thesis on hybrid photovoltaic and thermoelectric systems. He will start his PhD study at OSU next Spring. Big congrats!

Nov. 28, 2018

Radhika presented her research work on "low-cost flexible energy harvesters based on transverse thermoelectric effects" at MRS Fall Meeting 2018 in Boston, MA. 

Jul. 6, 2018

Radhika and Yu's book chapter on flexible TE materials and devices has been published online at here. Congrats!

Jul. 3, 2018

Dr. Bahk gave a talk at 2018 Inter. Conf. Thermo-electrics (ICT) in Caen, France, about transverse-type flexible TEGs for wearable energy harvesting by Radhika et al. 

Jul. 1-5, 2018

Radhika and Erik had a poster each presented at 2018 Inter. Conf. Thermoelectrics (ICT) in Caen, France.

May 22, 2018

Radhika won the best poster award at 2018 International Nanotech. Materials and Devices (NMD) Workshop. Big congrats!

Apr. 27, 2018

Our JCI (Joint-Coop Institute) senior students from Chongqing Univ. China, Xiaowan, Huijun, and Xinjie,have spent their final year at UC and graduated successfully. Congrats! Please see photo below from our lunch-out together.