Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

D Beretta, N Neophytou, JM Hodges… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

Clathrate thermoelectrics

JA Dolyniuk, B Owens-Baird, J Wang, JV Zaikina… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Clathrates represent a fascinating class of inorganic materials with a unique structural motif:
3D framework with large polyhedral cages encapsulating guest ions. Weak electrostatic …

Path to high- superconductivity via Rb substitution of guest metal atoms in the clathrate

P Zhang, X Li, X Yang, H Wang, Y Yao, H Liu - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Recently, a host-guest clathrate Sr B 3 C 3 with sp 3-bonded boron-carbon framework was
synthesized at∼ 50 GPa. Based on electron count, the structure is understood as guest Sr …

Ambient-pressure high- superconductivity in doped boron-nitrogen clathrates and

HB Ding, YJ Feng, MJ Jiang, HL Tian, GH Zhong… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
LaH 10 exhibits the near-room-temperature superconductivity, but the high fabrication
pressure exceeding 200 GPa limits the possibility of its experimental research and …

Computational screening of hydration reactions for thermal energy storage: new materials and design rules

S Kiyabu, JS Lowe, A Ahmed, DJ Siegel - Chemistry of Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
The implementation of thermal energy storage (TES) can improve the efficiency of existing
industrial processes, and enable new applications that require the uptake/release of heat on …

Understanding lattice thermal conductivity in thermoelectric clathrates: A density functional theory study on binary Si-based type-I clathrates

H Euchner, S Pailhès, VM Giordano, M de Boissieu - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Despite their crystalline nature, thermoelectric clathrates exhibit a strongly reduced lattice
thermal conductivity. While the reason for this unexpected behavior is known to lie in the …

Unveiling the Influence of Boron Clathrate Lattice on Superconductivity in Ternary Mg-La-B System

Y Zhang, M Xu, J Hao, Y Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The clathrate lattice plays a crucial role in determining the material properties, specifically
concerning the high superconductivity in high-pressure superhydrides. This study focuses …

Stability and Physical Properties of Metastable Ba–Si Clathrates

R Viennois, R Debord, A Moll, V Legrand… - Inorganic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the present study, we have investigated the stability of different Ba–Si clathrates with
pressure and temperature using DFT calculations and studied the stability of type I Ba8Si46 …

High-temperature superconductivity in doped boron clathrates

L Ma, L Wang, Y Yuan, H Guo… - Chinese Physics Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent discoveries of near-room-temperature superconductivity in clathrate hydrides
present compelling evidence for the reliability of theory-orientated conventional …

Giant reduction in thermal conductivity of extended type-I silicon clathrates and prominent thermal effect of 6d guest Wyckoff positions

Y Gao, X Zhang, Y Zhou, M Hu - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Clathrates, which consist of a large polyhedral cage framework encapsulating guest atoms,
exhibit exceptional properties such as those of high-performance thermoelectrics due to the …