Ionic organic thermoelectrics with impressively high thermopower for sensitive heat harvesting scenarios

YH Pai, J Tang, Y Zhao, Z Liang - Advanced energy materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the worldwide energy crisis is worsened, thermoelectric materials that can harvest low‐
grade waste heat and directly convert it into electricity provide promising alternative energy …

Recent trends and future perspectives of thermoelectric materials and their applications

P Baskaran, M Rajasekar - RSC advances, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
This review explores the ever-evolving landscape of thermoelectric materials, focusing on
the latest trends and innovations in ceramics, thermally conductive gel-like materials, metals …

Cellulose‐Based Radiative Cooling and Solar Heating Powers Ionic Thermoelectrics

M Liao, D Banerjee, T Hallberg, C Åkerlind… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cellulose opens for sustainable materials suitable for radiative cooling thanks to inherent
high thermal emissivity combined with low solar absorptance. When desired, solar …

Ionic thermoelectrics: principles, materials and applications

H Cheng, Q Le, Z Liu, Q Qian, Y Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Abundant heat is generated in household, industry and natural processes, and the majority
of the heat is dissipated in the environment as waste heat owing to the low heat utilization …

Thermodynamics of Ionic Thermoelectrics for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting

X Qian, Z Ma, Q Huang, H Jiang, R Yang - ACS Energy Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
More than half of the waste heat rejected into the environment has temperatures lower than
100° C, which accounts for nearly 85 PWh/year worldwide. Efficiently harvesting low-grade …

Giant Thermoelectric Performance of N‐Type Ionogels by Synergistic Do**s of Cations and Anions

Q Le, Z Chen, H Cheng… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is of great significance to develop high‐performance n‐type ionic thermoelectric materials.
Herein, the turnover from p‐to n‐type and great improvement in the n‐type ionic Seebeck …

Piezoelectric‐Augmented Thermoelectric Ionogels for Self‐Powered Multimodal Medical Sensors

YH Pai, C Xu, R Zhu, X Ding, S Bai, Z Liang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A paradigm ionogel consisting of ionic liquid (IL) and PVDF− HFP composites is made,
which inherently possesses dual‐function ionic thermoelectric (iTE) and piezoelectric (PE) …

High-performance ionic thermoelectric materials and emerging applications of ionic thermoelectric devices

Y Tian, X Yang, K Li, Q Zhang, Y Li, H Wang… - Materials Today Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The recovery of low-level thermal energy, the conversion of solar thermal energy and the
reuse of human thermal energy determine that thermoelectric materials are extremely …

Exceptional n-type thermoelectric ionogels enabled by metal coordination and ion-selective association

W Zhao, Y Zheng, M Jiang, T Sun, A Huang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ionic liquid–based ionogels emerge as promising candidates for efficient ionic
thermoelectric conversion due to their quasi-solid state, giant thermopower, high flexibility …

An ionic thermoelectric capacitor with continuous power generation for heat harvesting

Q Le, H Cheng, J Ouyang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Ionic conductors emerged as the next-generation thermoelectric (TE) materials mainly due
to their high thermopower, which is higher than that of the electronic conductors by 1–2 …