The fifth progress meeting of HORATES was held at IIT in Milan, Italy from October 9 to 12, 2023. The event was organized in place. A detailed agenda can be found here: https://horates.eu/2023/09/15/fifth-progress-meeting-in-milan-italy-coming-soon/ HORATES ESRs and PIs at the workshop. Day 1 Monday, 9 October 2023 The first day focussed on the ESRs presenting their results, progress, upcoming plans and joint projects within the network. In addition, Mario Caironi presented his groups research on edible printed electronics which was completed by a tour through selected CNST-IIT labs. Jiali Guo ..read more

We are looking forward to our fifth progress meeting taking place from October 9 to 15 2023 in Milan at the IIT. We will have a school focussing on “Printed Electronics and Opportunities for Thermolectrics” with hands-on experiences as well as a workshop dealing with Carreer Development, including postdoc funding opportunities. Day 1 Monday, 9 October 2023 09:30 –10:15 Meeting opening; ESR 1 & 2 presentations 10:15 –10:30 Coffee break 10:30 –12:30 ESR 3-10 presentations 12:30 –14:00 Lunch 14:00 –15:00 ESR 11-13 presentations 15:00 –16:00 Prof. Felice Torrisi – Imperial College London ..read more

The fourth Progress Meeting was held at CNRS in Strasbourg, France from April 3 to 5, 2023. The meeting was held for the first time in place only. In the following you will find a summary and some impressions of the event. A detailed agenda can be found here: https://horates.eu/2023/03/22/fourth-progress-meeting-in-strasbourg-france-coming-soon/ HORATES ESRs and PIs at the workshop. / Photo: Shubhradip Guchait Day 1 Monday, 3 April 2023 Matias Joglar and Irene Brunetti presenting their research and results. / Photo: Shubhradip Guchait The meeting started with the ESRs presenting their progress ..read more

The fourth progress meeting of HORATES will take place from April 3 to April 5, 2023 in Strasbourg at ICS on the CNRS campus. It will include a school on Advanced topics in Organic Thermoelectrics and a workshop on how to develop an initial idea to market entry. Below you will find an insight into our agenda. A summary and impressions of the event will follow soon. Day 1 Monday, 3 April 2023 09:00 –09:15 Introduction: Martin Brinkmann / Martijn Kemerink 09:15 –16:30 ESR report on the advancement of their work (10’ talk + 5’ questions) 16:30 –18:00 HORATES Board Meetings 18:30 HORATES Dinner ..read more

The third HORATES project Progress Meeting was hosted by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Solar Center in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia from October 9-13, 2022. The Progress Meeting coincided with the “KAUST Workshop on Organic Semiconductors and Flexible Electronics 2022”, an event organized by Prof. Derya Baran and Prof. Sahika Inal that brought a wide range of leading researchers, industry partners and young researchers from around the world to discuss topics such as: Design and synthesis Processing, doping, and characterization Theory and Modeling Device prototyping a ..read more

The third progress meeting of HORATES will take place from October 10 to October 12, 2022 at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia and will include a workshop on “Organic Semiconductors and Flexible Electronics” with lectures, skil raining sessions and tutorials. The ageda can be found here: https://ksc.kaust.edu.sa/kaustworkshop2022/events. A summary and impressions of the event will follow in the near future. The post Third progress meeting at KAUST, Saudi Arabia coming soon appeared first on HORATES Innovative Training Network ..read more

The second Progress Meeting and Mid Term Check was hosted by Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and held at the UAB Casa de Convalescència from April 25-29, 2022. The event was organized in a hybrid format to allow all PIs to attend despite teaching obligations. All ESRs attended in person. HORATES Researchers at Casa de Convalescència / ICMAB The second progress meeting of HORATES was divided into three parts: the mid term check with the project officer Giulia Moro of the REA, an international school on “Thermal Properties of Materials” and an oral presentation cours ..read more

In the construct of HORATES, Chalmers University of Technology is the main body to investigate p-doping of polymeric organic semiconductors (Figure 1). One class of materials studied in HORATES are polymers, or plastics. When these polymers have a specific structure of alternating double and single bonds, the charges will be able to move along the polymer backbone. These charges are introduced by a process known as molecular doping. A guest molecule is introduced and donates/abstracts an electron to/from the polymer. In p-type doping, the guest molecule abstracts an electron leaving a positive ..read more

The second progress meeting of HORATES will take place from April 25 to April 29, 2022 at the Casa de la Convalescencia, in central Barcelona and will include the mid term check, a school on thermal properties of materials and a hands on workshop on presentation skills. Below you will find an insight into our agenda. A summary and impressions of the event will follow in the near future. Stay tuned! Day 1 Monday, 25 April 2022 Mid-Term Check with the Project Officer and Board Meetings 09:00 –09:05 Introduction 09:05 –09:35 Tour de table 09:35 –10:05 REA Project officer presentation 10:05 –10 ..read more

Nowadays, with the incipient growth of the internet of things (IoT) and its applications, like wearable devices or wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the need for portable, robust and sustainable power sources that allow devices to work without external energy sources arises. Power consumption is a critical problem on these devices, limiting the device lifetime or forcing an increase in the battery size. In these cases, generators based on energy harvesting can extend the life of these batteries, or maybe replace them in certain cases. However, energy harvesters based on thermoelectric generator ..read more