关键词: 室温催化燃烧, 纳米尺度热机, 纳米催化, 热电材料, MEMS技术

Abstract: With the development of the society, the contradiction between the consumption and scarcity of energy resources became more acute, which led to the great attention to the innovation of utilization technology of traditional energy resources. Nano energy technology, a new kind of energy technology combining advanced technologies such as nano-materials and nano-micro machining, has great potential to achieve a breakthrough in the field of energy, since the tradition macro scale energy system (e.g., internal combustion engine ) is facing intrinsic technical problems including low efficiency, high pollution, large size, etc. INME (Institute of NanoMicroEnergy) in Shanghai University, taking the advantage of being a interdisciplinary plateform, proposes to integrate the
traditional micro-thermoelectric devices fabricated by MEMS techology along with catalysis combustion that converting chemical energy to electric energy. Thus a nano-salce heat engine is obtained. The expected benefits include improving both the catalytic activity and stability of the combustion catalyst and converting the heat from catalytic reaction into electric.

Key words: room temperature catalytic combustion, nano-scale heat engine, nano-catalysis, thermoelectric material, microelectromechanical systems technology