Abstract
A substantial amount of testing and analysis was performed over the 56-month-duration of this Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Marlow Industries and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL's work focused on supporting the further development of Marlow Industries’ thermoelectric materials and thermoelectric devices for potential waste heat recovery applications. As a consequence of those efforts, (1) the mechanical, thermal, and transport property measurements performed by ORNL helped Marlow Industries to iteratively refine their thermoelectric material compositions and processing methods thusly improving the stability, mechanical robustness, and thermoelectric efficiencies of those materials, (2) ORNL's evaluations of supportive materials (e.g., metallizations) helped Marlow Industries to refine methods and materials to mount their thermoelectric materials into their thermoelectric devices, and (3) ORNL's analysis of thermoelectric devices helped Marlow with device design and their consideration of new types of mechanical tests that have the prospect for accelerated and proof testings.
