Slowing down the heat in thermoelectrics

B Qin, D Wang, LD Zhao - InfoMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heat transport has various applications in solid materials. In particular, the thermoelectric
technology provides an alternative approach to traditional methods for waste heat recovery …

Routes for advancing SnTe thermoelectrics

Z Chen, X Guo, F Zhang, Q Shi, M Tang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional PbTe-based semiconductors have been leading the developments in the
thermoelectrics community due to their rich capabilities in optimizing the electronic and …

High‐performance thermoelectric material and module driven by medium‐entropy engineering in SnTe

Q Zhang, Z Guo, R Wang, X Tan, K Song… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The emerged strategy of entropy engineering provides new ideas for realizing high‐
performance thermoelectric materials, but it is still much unresolved how to achieve delicate …

Retarding Ostwald ripening through Gibbs adsorption and interfacial complexions leads to high-performance SnTe thermoelectrics

D An, J Wang, J Zhang, X Zhai, Z Kang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoprecipitation is a routine method to decrease the thermal conductivity for advancing
thermoelectric performance. However, the coarsening/Ostwald ripening of precipitates under …

Chemical Pressure-Driven Band Convergence and Discordant Atoms Intensify Phonon Scattering Leading to High Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe

H Ming, ZZ Luo, Z Chen, HH Cui, W Zheng… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
SnTe is an intriguing alternative to PbTe for midtemperature thermoelectric applications.
Despite steady progress, its performance is lagging, in part because of the large energy …

Bottom-up synthesis of SnTe-based thermoelectric composites

B Nan, X Song, C Chang, K ** improves the thermoelectric performance of SnTe: an outcome of electronic structure engineering
US Shenoy, DK Bhat - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials which exhibit high performance throughout a range of temperature
is required for successful scavenging of waste heat to generate electricity. Herein, we tailor …

Lead-free SnTe-based compounds as advanced thermoelectrics

Y Zhang, J Sun, J Shuai, X Tang, G Tan - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials are able to realize the direct energy conversion between heat and
electricity and have great potential in power generation and Peltier cooling. SnTe, an old but …

Constructing van der Waals gaps in cubic-structured SnTe-based thermoelectric materials

X Xu, J Cui, Y Yu, B Zhu, Y Huang, L **e… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The practical application of eco-friendly tin telluride (SnTe) at intermediate temperatures has
been long restricted by its lower average ZT than that of state-of-art PbTe. Here, a maximal …

Vanadium: a protean dopant in SnTe for augmenting its thermoelectric performance

US Shenoy, DK Bhat - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, a second n-type resonant dopant in the form of vanadium is introduced in the
SnTe thermoelectrics family. The electronic structure simulated using density functional …