Anisotropic thermal transport in layered hybrid materials (C01)

• Subject Area: Polymer Materials
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 492723217

This project (Breu/Retsch) will systematically structure 2D hybrid materials with a soft-hard interface on a nanoscopic length scale to provide seminal insights into the transport across interfaces and along the basal planes. The directional heat and electronic transport in compact thin films of silicates, niobates or titanates, and heat conduction via the percolating framework in hierarchically porous sponges composed of the same nanocomposites, will be examined. For both, we will develop advanced methods to elucidate the orientation- and temperature-dependent transport properties. We aim to utilize the high materials anisotropy to separate and orthogonalize heat and electron transport.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1585: Structured functional materials for multiple transport in nanoscale confinements
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bayreuth
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Josef Breu; Professor Dr. Markus Retsch