Carolina Carreira

Materials Deep Dive

Education EN ↓ 102 episodes

The podcast for engineers, founders, and curious minds who want to understand how sustainable materials are reshaping industry. In each episode, I sit down with CEOs and innovators building the future of green manufacturing, circular design, and materials science If you've ever wondered what engineering actually looks like, this is your deep dive. Follow @materialsdeepdive on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠TikTok⁠ to get some behind the scenes and bloopers of the podcast.

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Carolina Carreira

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Spin Crossover Materials: The Key to Flexible, Transparent Smartphones? 24.11.2024 14:59

Spin crossover (SCO) materials can switch between two electronic states with a temperature change, light pulse, or pressure, making them leading candidates for molecular switches, sensors, and memory devices. This episode explains the high-spin/low-spin transition, cooperative effects, and the road to flexible, transparent device applications. Topics: spin crossover | SCO materials | molecular swi...

Thermoelectric Materials: Turning Heat into Electricity and Vice Versa 24.11.2024 21:40

What if your body heat could charge your phone? Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences directly into electrical voltage, and vice versa. This episode covers the Seebeck effect, Peltier effect, thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT). We also discuss the best thermoelectric materials (Bi2Te3, PbTe, half-Heusler alloys), and applications in waste heat recovery and solid-state cooling....