Insights into low thermal conductivity in inorganic materials for thermoelectrics

T Ghosh, M Dutta, D Sarkar… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efficient manipulation of thermal conductivity and fundamental understanding of the
microscopic mechanisms of phonon scattering in crystalline solids are crucial to achieve …

Keynote review of latest advances in thermoelectric generation materials, devices, and technologies 2022

T Hendricks, T Caillat, T Mori - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The last decade created tremendous advances in new and unique thermoelectric
generation materials, devices, fabrication techniques, and technologies via various global …

Strain-Induced Medium-Temperature Thermoelectric Performance of : The Role of Four-Phonon Scattering

XK Chen, EM Zhang, D Wu, KQ Chen - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the synthesized Cu 4 Ti Se 4 with ultralow room-temperature thermal
conductivity [Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 60, 9106 (2021)], we systematically investigate its …

Glassy thermal conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 single crystal

P Acharyya, T Ghosh, K Pal, KS Rana, M Dutta… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the periodic atomic arrangement of a crystal is made to a disorder or glassy-amorphous
system by destroying the long-range order, lattice thermal conductivity, κL, decreases, and …

Vacancy controlled nanoscale cation ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance

R Pathak, L **e, S Das, T Ghosh, A Bhui… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
High thermoelectric performance is generally achieved in solid-solution alloyed or heavily
doped semiconductors. The consequent atomic disorder has a trade-off in the thermoelectric …

Nanostructured Ferecrystal Intergrowths with TaSe2 Unveiled High Thermoelectric Performance in n-Type SnSe

V Taneja, N Goyal, S Das, S Chandra… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ferecrystals, a distinctive class of misfit layered compounds, hold significant promise in
manipulating the phonon transport owing to their two-dimensional (2D) natural superlattice …

Chemical Bonding Tuned Lattice Anharmonicity Leads to a High Thermoelectric Performance in Cubic AgSnSbTe3

D Sarkar, K Dolui, V Taneja, A Ahad… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehension of chemical bonding and its intertwined relation with charge carriers and
heat propagation through a crystal lattice is imperative to design compounds for …

Lone pair rotation and bond heterogeneity leading to ultralow thermal conductivity in aikinite

V Carnevali, S Mukherjee, DJ Voneshen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the relationship between the crystal structure, chemical bonding, and lattice
dynamics is crucial for the design of materials with low thermal conductivities, which are …

Extended Antibonding States and Phonon Localization Induce Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Low Dimensional Metal Halide

P Acharyya, K Pal, A Ahad, D Sarkar… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal conductivity, which measures the ease at which heat passes through a crystalline
solid, is controlled by the nature of the chemical bonding and periodicity in the solid. This …

Intrinsically ultralow thermal conductive inorganic solids for high thermoelectric performance

M Dutta, D Sarkar, K Biswas - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric materials which can convert heat energy to electricity rely on crystalline
inorganic solid state compounds exhibiting low phonon transport (ie low thermal …