Functional Nanomaterials from the Bottom-up Assembly of Colloidal Nanoparticles. A Strategy Towards Efficient Thermoelectrics

• Autores: María Ibáñez Sabaté
• Directores de la Tesis: Joan Ramon Morante i Lleonart (dir. tes.), Andreu Cabot Codina (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat de Barcelona ( España ) en 2013
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Peter Reiss (presid.), Jordi Arbiol Cobos (secret.), Kevin M. Ryan (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Física
    • Física atómica y nuclear
      • Conversión de energía
    • Química física
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Tecnología de materiales
      • Propiedades de materiales
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Economía sectorial
      • Energía
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en:  TDX  Dipòsit Digital de la UB 
• Resumen

  • The work developed during this PhD has embraced several topics that I divide in three blocks. Each block contains two chapters in this dissertation. Additionally, a general introduction of the different topics is provided (Chapter 1). The first block corresponds to the study of colloidal synthetic routes to produce functional nanoparticles (Chapter 2 and 3). In the second block the developed nanoparticles are used to produce bulk nanostructured materials. The functional properties of the nanomaterials are also characterized in this second block. As the paradigmatic application for such bottom-up assembled nanostructured materials I considered thermoelectricity (Chapter 4 and 5). In the last block, I go one step beyond and design and prepare multiphase nanoparticles as building blocks for the bottom up production of nanocomposites with improved thermoelectric performance (Chapter 6 and 7).