2008-5-29，来自美国美国麻省理工学院的陈刚教授来到北京工业大学环能学院传热强化与过程节能教育部重点实验室，作了一场题为：So, What does Nanotechnology Have to Do with Energy?（纳米技术与能源科学的发展）的学术报告。

Dr. Gang Chen目前是MIT的the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor. 师从田长霖先生。 目前主要研究纳米尺度能源传递和转换以及纳米尺度传热。

Dr. Gang Chen的报告介绍了在纳米科技与能源领域结合产生的跨学科交叉领域中的研究以及取得的成果，给实验室师生介绍了非常新的研究信息及研究方法，极大丰富了师生们的对于纳米与能源的认识，增加了知识面，收到良好的反响。

2008-5-29.Prof. Gang Chen gave a lecture in our lab. Dr. Gang Chen is currently the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor at MIT. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley in 1993. He was a faculty member at Duke University, University of California at Los Angeles, and moved to MIT in 2001. He is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an ASME Fellow. He has published extensively in the area of nanoscale energy transport and conversion and nanoscale heat transfer. He serves on the editorial boards for five journals in heat transfer and nanotechnology and chairs the advisory board of ASME Nanotechnology Institute

Nanotechnology focuses on small scale effects. Energy is a global issue. Despite such disparities, there is a growing awareness that nanoscience and nanotechnology can have a profound impact on energy generation, storage, and utilization by exploiting the significant differences of energy states and transport between nanostructures and macrostructures. In this talk, I will discuss a few examples regarding the exploitation of nanoscale effects for solar energy conversion, hydrogen storage, and especially thermoelectric energy conversion. We will show that by exploring the interface scattering of electrons and phonons, the thermoelectric figure of merit can be improved in nanocomposites. Nanotechnology that can be scaled up for mass production to meet the energy conversion cost constraint will be emphasized.