- Unit:
- SINTEF Industry
- Department:
- Sustainable Energy Technology
- Office:
- Oslo
Ole Martin Løvvik is chief scientist at SINTEF and Professor II at Univ. Oslo. His background is within computational materials science, focused on atomic-scale simulations of sustainable energy materials. This includes hydrogen membranes, thermoelectric generators, solar cell materials, and battery materials. Løvvik visited Caltech in CA, USA as a Fulbright Scholar in 2015-2016, and was Visiting Professor at Osaka University in 2012. His WOS h-index is 30, based on more than 3300 citations.
Education
1998 Dr.scient., Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Oslo (UiO), Norway, 12.06.1998
1992 Cand.Scient., Dept. of Physics, UiO, Norway, 20.12.1992.
Competence and research areas
- Atomistic modelling of materials from first principles
- Density functional theory (DFT) and related techniques
- High-throughput search of new materials with superior properties
- Hydrogen technology
- Thermoelectric materials for waste heat harvesting
- Battery materials
- Metals and alloys
- Semiconductors and solar cells
- Oxides and fuel cells
- Phase transformation materials with high reversibility
- Transport properties from Boltzmann theory using first-principles input
- Phonon calculations for temperature dependent properties
- Diffusion molecular dynamics for very long time simulations
- First principles molecular dynamics
- Prediction of crystal structures, surfaces and defects
Highlighted publications
- Screening of thermoelectric silicides with atomistic transport calculations
- Decohesion Energy of ? 5 (012) Grain Boundaries in Ni as Function of Hydrogen Content
- Grain boundary segregation in Pd-Cu-Ag alloys for high permeability hydrogen separation membranes
- Detailed atomistic insight into the β″ phase in Al–Mg–Si alloys
- Band structure guidelines for higher figure-of-merit; analytic band generation and energy filtering
Projects
- Allotherm - High-throughput alloy design of superior thermoelectric materials
- Cool’em - Solid state cooling with elastocaloric materials
- COMET - Conversion between Magnetic, Electric, and Thermal energies in phase-transforming materials
- SunSic – Efficient Exploitation of the Sun with Intermediate BandSilicon Carbide
Other publications
- Probing the structural evolution and its impact on magnetic properties of FeCoNi(AlMn)x high-entropy alloy at the nanoscale
- A Roadmap for Transforming Research to Invent the Batteries of the Future Designed within the European Large Scale Research Initiative BATTERY 2030+
- High entropy alloy CrFeNiCoCu sputter deposited films: Structure, electrical properties, and oxidation
- Thin films made by reactive sputtering of high entropy alloy FeCoNiCuGe: Optical, electrical and structural properties
- Predictive screening for thermoelectric properties using atomic-scale simulations and machine learning tools
- Abels tårn: Artig underholdning eller nyttig kunnskap?
- Jordvarme, kjernekraft og batterier
- Lattice thermal conductivity of half-Heuslers with density functional theory and machine learning: Enhancing predictivity by active sampling with principal component analysis
- Vacancy diffusion in palladium hydrides
- Controlling the Electrical Properties of Reactively Sputtered High Entropy Alloy CrFeNiCoCu Films