Project 157: Design Thermal Functional Materials via Materials Informatics

Contact Information:

Assoc. Prof. Shenghong Ju

Project Description and Objectives:

Designing functionalized materials with a desired thermal property holds its critical importance in applications of thermal interfacial materials, thermoelectrics, thermal barrier coatings and thermal insulators. Materials informatics (MI), which has been considered as the fourth paradigm of science in addition to theory, simulation, and experiment, is now gaining great attention in materials research. In this project, we will employ various intelligence optimization methods to solve the bottlenecks of material selection and structure designing which limit the design efficiency of thermal functional materials.

Eligibility Requirements:

Familiar with or interested in machine learning and data science.

Fundamental knowledge in heat transfer and materials science.

Main Tasks:

Screening material database to find materials with ultimate high/low thermal conductivity

Designing nanostructures to tune thermal transport via quantum annealing.

Website:

Lab: http://lcc.sjtu.edu.cn/En/Data/View/1158

School: http://lcc.sjtu.edu.cn/En