Organic Thermoelectrics – From Materials to Devices

Daoben Zhu is Professor and Director of the Organic Solids Laboratory in the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS). He finished his graduate courses at the East China University of Science and Technology in 1968. He was selected as an academician of CAS in 1997, and served as vice-director (1988-1992), director (1992-2000) of ICCAS and vice president of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2000-2008). Prof. Zhu's current research interests focus on molecular materials and devices. In particular, Prof. Zhu initiated his thermoelectric power related studies from 1980s, and developed several state-of-the-art organic thermoelectric materials and devices during the past 10 years.