Topic: Materials for efficient heat pumps

Speaker: Prof.Ekkes bruck,Delft University of Technology

Venue: Room 205,Building 14,Wushan Campus

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Lecture 1

Topic:Materials for efficient heat pumps

Time: 9:00, November 29, 2019

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Lecture 2

Topic:Efficient energy-conversion near room-temperature with transition metal based magnetic materials

Time: 9:00, November 30, 2019

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Biography: Full professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Delft University of Technology and head of the section Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy. Employing microscopic and macroscopic techniques, my main research interest is in materials for renewable energy and energy saving (MCE, Li-ion batteries, H storage, solar cells, self-healing materials, catalysts). In this work in-situ, neutron scattering, X-ray diffraction, positron annihilation and M?ssbauer spectroscopy play an important role. The experimental results are combined with first principle calculations and molecular dynamics simulations, to gain a better understanding of the physical and chemical processes that are relevant for optimal performance of devices.

My major scientific effort and scholarly contribution of the past 15 years is to establish magnetocaloric material as a new, sustainability-oriented discipline. I am recognized as leading expert in this field. 

Overall, I have published more than 450 papers with about 10000 citations (ISI); generated 13 patents. My h-index is 40. I am the editor of Handbook of Magnetic Materials, co-editor for 3 journals, co-organized the Intermag Conference in Amsterdam and initiated the recurring Delft Days on Magnetocalorics.