Heating and cooling materials includes those with thermal transport and conducting properties that can be harnessed for applications for temperature control in buildings and for industrial processes. Cambridge-led research into materials interfaces in semiconductors, thermoelectrics and caloric materials can enable development of future heating and cooling systems at a range of scales.
Some key centres and initiatives include:
- Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials
- Resource Efficiency Collective
- Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
- Nano Manufacturing group
Spin-out: Barocal A breakthrough for domestic and commercial heating systems.
Researchers working in this area:
| Prof Sian Dutton |
Professor of Physics and Solid State Chemistry Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Chris Ford | Professor of Quantum Electronics |
| Prof Sohini Kar-Narayan |
Professor of Device & Energy Materials Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Neil Mathur | Professor of Materials Physics |
| Professor Xavier Moya | Professor of Materials Physics |
| Prof Henning Sirringhaus | Hitachi Professorship of Electron Device Physics |