CX-101907: Optimizing Additive Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Materials using Bayesian Optimization-Enhanced Transfer Learning

Award Number: DE-EE0009103
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.1
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Location(s): IN
Office(s): Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to the University of Notre Dame to improve the additive manufacturing of high performance and low-cost thermoelectric semiconductor materials for energy conversion applications. Activities would include high-throughput combinatorial film manufacturing with aerosol jet printing by sintering of thermoelectric nanoparticle suspensions, high-throughput characterization of thermoelectric properties, and Bayesian optimization-enhanced machine learning for manufacturing process optimization.