Rethinking SnSe thermoelectrics from computational materials science

S Bai, X Zhang, LD Zhao - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The growing energy crisis and the adverse environmental impacts caused by
carbon-based energy consumption have spurred the exploration of green and sustainable …

Rationally designing high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

G Tan, LD Zhao, MG Kanatzidis - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
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 …

Simultaneously engineering electronic and phonon band structures for high-performance n-type polycrystalline SnSe

S Byun, B Ge, H Song, SP Cho, MS Hong, J Im… - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
Summary n-type SnSe thermoelectrics has been seriously underdeveloped because of a
lack of effective performance-enhancing strategies and do**/alloying agents. Herein, we …

Modular Nanostructures Facilitate Low Thermal Conductivity and Ultra‐High Thermoelectric Performance in n‐Type SnSe

S Chandra, U Bhat, P Dutta, A Bhardwaj… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single crystals of SnSe have gained considerable attention in thermoelectrics due to their
unprecedented thermoelectric performance. However, polycrystalline SnSe is more …

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 …

High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

Ultrahigh power factor and thermoelectric performance in hole-doped single-crystal SnSe

LD Zhao, G Tan, S Hao, J He, Y Pei, H Chi, H Wang… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology, harvesting electric power directly from heat, is a promising
environmentally friendly means of energy savings and power generation. The thermoelectric …

SnSe: a remarkable new thermoelectric material

LD Zhao, C Chang, G Tan… - Energy & Environmental …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The deceptively simple material SnSe has surprised the scientific community by showing an
unexpectedly low thermal conductivity and high power factor and it has become a very …

Achieving ZT= 2.2 with Bi-doped n-type SnSe single crystals

AT Duong, VQ Nguyen, G Duvjir, VT Duong… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Recently SnSe, a layered chalcogenide material, has attracted a great deal of attention for
its excellent p-type thermoelectric property showing a remarkable ZT value of 2.6 at 923 K …

Tin selenide (SnSe): growth, properties, and applications

W Shi, M Gao, J Wei, J Gao, C Fan… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The indirect bandgap semiconductor tin selenide (SnSe) has been a research hotspot in the
thermoelectric fields since a ZT (figure of merit) value of 2.6 at 923 K in SnSe single crystals …