High performance thermoelectric materials: progress and their applications

L Yang, ZG Chen, MS Dargusch… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) materials have the capability of converting heat into electricity, which
can improve fuel efficiency, as well as providing robust alternative energy supply in multiple …

Perspectives on thermoelectrics: from fundamentals to device applications

M Zebarjadi, K Esfarjani, MS Dresselhaus… - Energy & …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This review is an update of a previous review (AJ Minnich, et al., Energy Environ. Sci., 2009,
2, 466) published two years ago by some of the co-authors, focusing on progress made in …

Advances in thermoelectrics

J Mao, Z Liu, J Zhou, H Zhu, Q Zhang, G Chen… - Advances in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

Energy filtering of charge carriers: current trends, challenges, and prospects for thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, Y Amouyal - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of
thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy …

Nanostructured thermoelectrics: the new paradigm?

MG Kanatzidis - Chemistry of materials, 2010 - ACS Publications
This review discusses recent developments and current research in bulk thermoelectric
materials in which nanostructuring is a key aspect affecting thermoelectric performance …

Current State‐of‐the‐Art in the Interface/Surface Modification of Thermoelectric Materials

S He, S Lehmann, A Bahrami… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) materials are prominent candidates for energy converting applications
due to their excellent performance and reliability. Extensive efforts for improving their …

Enhancement of the thermoelectric properties in nanoscale and nanostructured materials

JR Szczech, JM Higgins, S ** - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric materials can be used for solid state power generation and heating/cooling
applications. The figure of merit of thermoelectric materials, ZT, which determines their …

Grain boundary engineering for achieving high thermoelectric performance in n‐type skutterudites

X Meng, Z Liu, B Cui, D Qin, H Geng… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Grain or phase boundaries play a critical role in the carrier and phonon transport in bulk
thermoelectric materials. Previous investigations about controlling boundaries primarily …

[BOOK][B] Thermoelectrics and its Energy Harvesting, 2-Volume Set

DM Rowe - 2018 - books.google.com
Comprising two volumes, Thermoelectrics and Its Energy Harvesting reviews the vast
improvements in technology and application of thermoelectric energy with a specific …

Enhanced Thermopower via Carrier Energy Filtering in Solution-Processable Pt–Sb2Te3 Nanocomposites

DK Ko, Y Kang, CB Murray - Nano letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
This work demonstrates the first solution-processable metal–semiconductor
nanocomposites with enhanced thermoelectric properties via carrier energy filtering …