Aim & Scope

In the interest of reducing environmental damage various renewable forms of energy production and storage have enjoyed substantial progress technologically and economically during the last decade. But much still needs to be done to ensure that our energy infrastructure can stay on a sustainable footing. This cannot be achieved through one technological solution alone, but requires the utilization of a number of energy production and storage technologies and measures to improve energy efficiency. Thermoelectrics is one of the clean energy generation technologies that can be utilized to convert waste heat into electricity.

The goal of the symposium on thermoelectric materials, devices and systems is to present the state-of-art research and breakthroughs in materials and technologies in thermoelectrics, industry best practices and roadmaps, technology commercialization opportunities, and how these opportunities can lead to high performance and cost-effective products that will improve the quality of life, reduce the dependency on technologies harmful to environment, improve the harvesting of energy using waste heat resources and bringing in a new paradigm for energy generation. The symposium will give an opportunity for scientists and engineers, working in academic institutions and industry to partner and collaborate with each other to leverage their expertise to accelerate research goals and achieve faster commercialization leading to affordable technologies and devices.

In India, Thermoelectrics is an upcoming area of research. Though the premier institutions have already been doing research in this area, researchers in other institutions have just started working on thermoelectrics recently. For the benefit of such institutions it is necessary to have a forum to discuss and form a network so that researchers working in this area start collaborating with each other. We hope that the collective output from research on thermoelectrics through mutual collaboration will be outstanding.