Subhra Sourav Jana
Ph.D Scholar (PMRF)
Plasmonics and Perovskites Laboratory
Department of Material Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Email: jana@iitk.ac.in
Research Motivation
About two third of the energy from industries is wasted as heat energy at the time of growing energy demand and grave concern of global warming. Recovering that waste heat and converting it into useful energy can open a new window to not only protect environment but also reduce the of fossil fuel burning. Thermoelectric generator (TEG) can be game changer to mitigate this energy crisis and protect environment. Thermoelectric materials, considered one of the finest discoveries in the history of science, took birth in the first quarter of the 19th century by German scientist Johann Seebeck and French scientist Jean Charles Athanase Peltier.
The goal of my current work (in Dr. Tanmoy Maiti's group) is to develop efficient thermoelectric material which can directly convert waste heat into useful electrical energy. My focus is to design oxide thermoelectric material because of its high temperature endurance as well as environmentally benignity. In addition, I also study structure property relation to develop profound understanding of electronic and thermal transport.
Activities
S.S. Jana, T. Maiti Designing Rare Earth Free High Entropy Oxide with Tungsten Bronze Structure for Thermoelectric Application, poster presentation at International Workshop on High Entropy Materials (IWHEM 2023), BARC(Mumbai), India
S.S. Jana, T. Maiti Waste heat recovery using oxide based nanocomposites for high temperature thermoelectric power generator, oral presentation at World Conference on Thermoelectrics and Materials (2023), Jaipur, India. 3.
S.S. Jana, T. Maiti Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance by Mobility Boasting Anderson Localized Electrons through Forming Oxide Composites with Carbon-Based Materials, poster presentation at International Conference on Energy Conversion and Storage (2023), IIT Madras, India. 4.
S.S. Jana, T. Maiti Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in La and Nb Co-doped SrTiO3 Composite Using Graphite as a Momentum Booster, oral presentation at Pan American Ceramics Congress and Ferroelectrics Meeting of Americas (2022), Panama, USA.
Participated in poster presentation with 5 minutes short video in Virtual conference in thermoelectrics (VCT2021) on July20-22 ,2021 [ #VCT2021Poster] titled "Oxide Nano-Composite for High Temperature Thermoelectric Power Generation as Clean Energy Source"]
Achievements
Best PhD thesis award by MRSI
Best PhD thesis award by DAE, India