Professor Ady Suwardi, Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor from Department of Electronic Engineering received the award of Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific 2024 by MIT Technology Review. "Innovators Under 35" is a prestigious platform and program that has been identifying young talent for over 20 years. This is an annual award to young scientists and innovators across Asia-Pacific region, limited to 35 awardees under age of 35 years old. This annual selection not only celebrates these individuals’ outstanding achievements but also underscores the growing influence of Asian talent in reshaping the global tech landscape. Professor Suwardi turned waste into treasure by recycling discarded electronic devices such as solar panels, providing novel approaches to solve energy and environmental problems and maximize economic and environmental value. His research group primarily focuses on thermoelectric materials and devices, exploring how to convert waste electronic products into useful materials and enhance the thermoelectric performance of these materials through innovative technologies. Professor Suwardi and his team have conducted extensive research in the field of thermoelectric materials, including materials synthesis, processing technologies, the physics of electronic and thermal transport, and thermoelectric devices for ambient energy harvesting. In a previous project, Professor Suwardi’s team developed an innovative method to upcycle non-purified silicon solar cells into valuable thermoelectric materials. By introducing phosphorus and germanium doping, they successfully converted non-purified silicon into thermoelectric materials with a figure of merit zT of 0.45. This approach offers both environmental and economic value and provides a new avenue for addressing environmental and energy challenges simultaneously. Additionally, they developed new thermoelectric materials using advanced processes like 3D printing, especially focusing on the high-performance engineering of 3D-printed porous thermoelectric materials. These practices successfully achieved environmentally friendly and efficient energy conversion.
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