The Smart Materials Sector of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network and the Smart Materials and Systems Committee of the IOM3 are offering a one-day workshop that will look at the current challenges for materials in energy harvesting applications.
As mobile technology advances so the need for smaller and lighter devices increases challenging the current technology for battery power. The logical alternative is the harvesting and storage of energy from the device’s environment but the challenge remains the levels of energy that can be harvested and how that energy can be stored. There is much hype about what current technology can do but one of the fundamental issues is the materials that are used and how they can play a key role in the development of functional energy harvesting systems. Amongst those materials will be smart materials and technologies.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss the current challenges to the intelligent utilisation of energy harvesting technology on a wider basis and to identify potential projects that might meet those challenges. The current approach is to develop electronics typically to rectify the oscillatory charge produced by a piezoelectric harvester and to store the resultant rectified signal on a supercapacitor, battery or other storage material. Equally problematic energy utilisation issues are associated with other energy harvesting technologies including thermoelectrics. In this one-day workshop we aim to move beyond this traditional approach and to explore some very new and innovative solutions and concepts concerning efficient and useful utilisation of the scavenged energy.
Keynote talks will be given by leaders in their fields covering, efficient electronic rectification, a holistic systems approach to energy harvesting, modelling of complex electro-mechanical systems, low power and low costs EH technology and more.
There will be an opportunity for delegates to give 2-minute elevator pitches and a number of round table discussions to discuss the challenges facing materials and systems in this technical area.
For full details of the event including the speaker programme visit https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/intelligent-energy-harvesting
For further details of the workshop please contact:
Dr Steve Morris: Tel: 07855 326599
Prof Markys Cain: Tel. 020 8943 6599
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