Dr Jan-Willem Bos

Reader in Energy Materials and Sustainability

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2713

Email

j.w.g.bos@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research group works on developing new solid-state energy materials and technological solutions. Sustainability is one of the key guiding principles. Our current major interest is in utilising waste heat and thermal management.

We have a strong track record in developing materials for use in thermoelectric generators, up to prototype level devices. This has largely focused on Heusler materials, which have good thermoelectric performance, satisfy key engineering requirements and are based on abundant elements. In addition, they afford a wide range of functional properties, comprising classical semiconductors to novel topological materials.

A parallel activity is innovative work developing electrochemical systems for waste heat harvesting, linked to the utilisation of the ionic Seebeck effect. This had led to an emerging interest in ionic conductors and electrode materials, which also form the working components of solid-state batteries.

PhD supervision

• Kim-Isabelle Mehnert

Selected publications

• Open access

  Impurity band formation as a route to thermoelectric power factor enhancement in n-type XNiSn half-Heuslers

  Quinn, R., Go, Y., Naden, A. B., Bojtor, A., Parada, G., Shawon, A. K. M. A., Domosud, K., Refson, K., Zevalkink, A., Neophytou, N. & Bos, J.-W. G., 12 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Physics Research. Early View, 10 p., 2400179.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Mixed-phase enabled high-rate copper niobate anodes for lithium-ion batteries

  Jager, B. M., Kortekaas, L., ten Elshof, J. E., Bos, J.-W. G., Tromp, M. & Huijben, M., 21 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13, 7, p. 5130-5142 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Alloying and doping control in the layered metal phosphide thermoelectric CaCuP

  Quinn, R., Biswas, R. & Bos, J.-W. G., 28 May 2024, In: ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 6, 5, p. 2879–2888

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Encoding CO₂ adsorption in sodium zirconate by neutron diffraction

  Gammie, C., Hesse, F., Kennedy, B., Bos, J.-W. G. & Sanna, A., 10 Aug 2024, In: Molecules. 29, 16, 14 p., 3798.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Oxygen migration pathways in layered LnBaCo₂O_6-δ (Ln = La-Y) perovskites

  Hesse, F., da Silva, I. & Bos, J.-W. G., 22 Apr 2024, In: JACS Au. 4, 4, p. 1538-1549 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Revisiting solid–solid phase transitions in sodium and potassium tetrafluoroborate for thermal energy storage

  Konar, S., Zieniute, G., Lascelles, E., Wild, B., Hermann, A., Wang, Y., Quinn, R. J., Bos, J.-W. G. & Fitch, A., 13 Feb 2024, In: Chemistry of Materials. 36, 3, p. 1238-1248

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Substantially low thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure-of-merit in Bi-doped Sr₂CoRuO₆ double perovskites

  Hira, U., Bos, J.-W. G., Ali, S. S. & Sher, F., 15 May 2024, In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 984, 173981.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Temperature and composition insensitivity of thermoelectric properties of high-entropy half-heusler compounds

  Li, S., Chen, K., Wang, Y., Saunders, T., Zhang, R., Bos, J.-W. G. & Reece, M. J., 1 Apr 2024, In: Acta Materialia. 268, 119761.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Mechanistic insights into the formation of thermoelectric TiNiSn from in situ neutron powder diffraction

  Barczak, S., Kennedy, B., da Silva, I. & Bos, J., 9 May 2023, In: Chemistry of Materials. 35, 9, p. 3694-3704 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Atom probe tomography of a Cu-doped TiNiSn thermoelectric material: nanoscale structure and optimization of analysis conditions

  He, H., Halpin, J. E., Popuri, S. R., Daly, L., Bos, JWG., Moody, M. P., MacLaren, D. A. & Bagot, P. AJ., 1 Aug 2022, In: Microscopy and Microanalysis. 28, 4, p. 1340-1347 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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