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Organic materials for thermoelectric energy harvesting have some advantages over their inorganic counterparts such as low toxicity, lightweight and flexible form factor. They can be deposited using solution processable techniques making the technology scalable with area and reducing fabrication costs. Possible applications aimed at low operating temperatures such as wearable thermoelectric generators powered by body heat.

Dr Andrey Nikolaenko received his M.Sc. degree from Novosibirsk State University in 2002 and his PhD degree from the Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia) in 2006, both in semiconductor physics. Between 2007 and 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the University of Southampton working in the areas of optics of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, and nanophotonics/optoelectronics, respectively. Since 2012 he has worked as a scientist at CDT developing polymer OLEDs and more recently, novel organic electronic devices, including devices for thermoelectric energy harvesting.

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