Chemical synthesis of metal oxides dielectric nanomaterials in energy harvesting

全球能源需求正在迅速大幅增长，因为能源是全球所有部门的关键组成部分， 现代经济，已经侵犯了今天的生活质量，因为我们依赖于它的丰富和 不间断供应。特别是，增加的水平的绿色家庭气体，二氧化碳（CO2）， 大气被认为是全球变暖和化石燃料燃烧造成的污染的主要原因 我们生活的各个领域都使用的燃料。大量的热能被铝和钢浪费了 行业回收这些大量浪费的热能将为以下方面提供机会： 提高这些能源密集型工业过程的总体能源效率。热电（TE） 这些材料可以通过回收利用高温工业浪费的热量来发电 在全球可持续能源解决方案中发挥重要作用。本研究旨在解决 魁北克水电公司（Hydro-Québec）感兴趣的问题，该公司专门从事能源发电、传输和分配， 加拿大魁北克和北美。Hydro-Québec寻求我们在合成和表征 金属氧化物介电纳米材料在这方面，我们建议使用溶胶-凝胶技术，一种化学路线， 合成并表征用于从废热中收集能量ZnO和NiO纳米结构材料。的 该项目的科学发现的结果有望帮助加拿大工业发展 经济、生态和高效的材料，通过回收浪费的能源来收集能源。

Global energy demand is growing rapidly and significantly as energy, the key ingredient in all sectors of modern economy, has invaded the quality of life today due to our dependency on its abundant and uninterrupted supply. In particular, the increased levels of the green house gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), in the atmosphere is believed to be a major contributor to global warming and pollution due to the burning of fossil fuels used in various spheres of our life. A significant amount of heat energy is wasted by aluminum and steel industries. The recovery of these large amounts of wasted thermal energy will provide opportunity for improving overall energy efficiency in these energy-intensive industrial processes. Thermoelectric (TE) materials, which can generate electricity by recycling the heat wasted from industries using high temperature processes, could play an important role in global sustainable energy solution. This study seeks to address a problem of interest for Hydro-Québec that specialized in energy generation, transmission and distribution in Quebec, Canada and North America. Hydro-Québec seeks our expertise in the synthesis and characterization of metal oxide dielectric nanomaterials. In that regard, we propose to use sol-gel technique, a chemical route, to synthesize and characterize ZnO and NiO nanostructures materials for harvesting energy from waste heat. The outcome of the scientific findings of this project is expected to help Canadian industries to develop economical, ecological and efficient materials in harvesting energy by recycling wasted energy.