Compromise and synergy in high‐efficiency thermoelectric materials

T Zhu, Y Liu, C Fu, JP Heremans, JG Snyder… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid growth of thermoelectric (TE) research.
Novel concepts and paradigms are described here that have emerged, targeting superior TE …

Flexible thermoelectric materials and generators: challenges and innovations

Y Wang, L Yang, XL Shi, X Shi, L Chen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The urgent need for ecofriendly, stable, long‐lifetime power sources is driving the booming
market for miniaturized and integrated electronics, including wearable and medical …

Recent advances in thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, KK Kar - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials are crucial in renewable energy conversion technologies to solve
the global energy crisis. They have been proven to be suitable for high-end technological …

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 …

Multiple-filled skutterudites: high thermoelectric figure of merit through separately optimizing electrical and thermal transports

X Shi, J Yang, JR Salvador, M Chi, JY Cho… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Skutterudites CoSb3 with multiple cofillers Ba, La, and Yb were synthesized and very high
thermoelectric figure of merit ZT= 1.7 at 850 K was realized. X-ray diffraction of the densified …

Promising and Eco‐Friendly Cu2X‐Based Thermoelectric Materials: Progress and Applications

WD Liu, L Yang, ZG Chen, J Zou - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the nature of their liquid‐like behavior and high dimensionless figure of merit, Cu2X
(X= Te, Se, and S)‐based thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive attention. The …

A review on the enhancement of figure of merit from bulk to nano-thermoelectric materials

H Alam, S Ramakrishna - Nano energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Thermal management and energy crisis have been two major problems in this 21st century.
The thermoelectric concept is seen as a perfect solution for the both issues provided its …

Enhancement of thermoelectric figure‐of‐merit by a bulk nanostructuring approach

Y Lan, AJ Minnich, G Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recently a significant figure‐of‐merit (ZT) improvement in the most‐studied existing
thermoelectric materials has been achieved by creating nanograins and nanostructures in …

Recent advances in high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

X Shi, L Chen, C Uher - International Materials Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectric (TE) materials facilitate direct heat-to-electricity conversion. The performance
of a TE material is characterised by its figure of merit zT (= S 2 σT/κ) that depends on both …

On the tuning of electrical and thermal transport in thermoelectrics: an integrated theory–experiment perspective

J Yang, L **, W Qiu, L Wu, X Shi, L Chen… - NPJ Computational …, 2016 - nature.com
During the last two decades, we have witnessed great progress in research on
thermoelectrics. There are two primary focuses. One is the fundamental understanding of …