Minoru Taya
Energy Research Area: Energy harvesting materials and devices; storage materials and devices, especially Li-ion batteries
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center for Intelligent Materials and Systems
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Intelligent Materials and Systems
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- College of Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
tayam@u.washington.edu
+1-206-685-2850
CIMS research covers energy harvesting materials and devices (dye-sensitized solar cells, thermoelectric materials and modules), and storage materials and devices (Li-ion battery based cathodic and anodic materials, and battery, and its packaging). An example project, sponsored by AFOSR, is on Energy Harvesting and Storage Systems (EHSS) for Future AF vehicles, where EHSS components include dye-sensitized solar cells, thermoelectric materials, and modules with low to high temperature applications, as well as Li-ion battery components.
Company Spin Outs / Technology Licensing
Campus and Other Collaborators/Partners
- Prof. G Chao of MSE has been working with me as Co-PI of the MURI, in the area of Li-ion battery cathodic elements.
- organic solar cells area, Prof Sam Jenekhe, Chem E, who is working on solid state solar cells , and has been Co-PI of MURI, while Taya is DSSC, whose mechanism is different from Prof Jenekhe.
Record last updated on November 29th 2011 PDT.
