Departmental News
NSF CAREER Grant: Dr. Shiren Wang
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Dr. Shiren Wang earned a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $400,000. Wang's award recognizes his career development plan which focuses on organic thermoelectric composites. Recovering heat from a material or device through thermoelectric conversion involves the conversion of thermal energy to electrical energy or electrical energy to thermal energy. The heat generated from the sun’s rays on the roof of an electric vehicle can be used to charge that same car’s battery. In computers, the heat from the processor could be recycled to recharge the battery as the computer is in operation. Wang is working to find new organic materials that could revolutionize the thermoelectric conversion industry. |