Thermoelectric materials can be potentially employed in solid-state devices that harvest
waste heat and convert it to electrical power, thereby improving the efficiency of fuel …

With the ever-growing development of multifunctional and miniature electronics, the
exploring of high-power microwatt-milliwatt self-charging technology is highly essential …

Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and
address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …

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 …

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 …

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 …

There has been a renaissance of interest in exploring highly efficient thermoelectric
materials as a possible route to address the worldwide energy generation, utilization, and …

Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

High-symmetry thermoelectric materials usually have the advantage of very high band
degeneracy, while low-symmetry thermoelectrics have the advantage of very low lattice …

We report and discuss the results of a detailed first-principles calculations of the structural,
elastic, electronic, optical and thermoelectric properties of the new Zintl phase dibarium zinc …