Defect engineering in thermoelectric materials: what have we learned?

Y Zheng, TJ Slade, L Hu, XY Tan, Y Luo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric energy conversion is an all solid-state technology that relies on exceptional
semiconductor materials that are generally optimized through sophisticated strategies …

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 …

Maximizing the performance of n-type Mg3Bi2 based materials for room-temperature power generation and thermoelectric cooling

Z Liu, W Gao, H Oshima, K Nagase, CH Lee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the thermoelectric effect was discovered around 200 years ago, the main
application in practice is thermoelectric cooling using the traditional Bi2Te3. The related …

Demonstration of ultrahigh thermoelectric efficiency of∼ 7.3% in Mg3Sb2/MgAgSb module for low-temperature energy harvesting

Z Liu, N Sato, W Gao, K Yubuta, N Kawamoto… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Thermoelectric harvesting of low-temperature waste heat offers great opportunities for
sustainable energy production. However, the investigations of related thermoelectric …

High thermoelectric cooling performance of n-type Mg3Bi2-based materials

J Mao, H Zhu, Z Ding, Z Liu, GA Gamage, G Chen… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials have a large Peltier effect, making them attractive for solid-state
cooling applications. Bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3)–based alloys have remained the state-of …

Key properties of inorganic thermoelectric materials—tables (version 1)

R Freer, D Ekren, T Ghosh, K Biswas… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

High ZT in p-type thermoelectric (Bi, Sb) 2 Te 3 with built-in nanopores

HL Zhuang, H Hu, J Pei, B Su, JW Li, Y Jiang… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Peltier devices utilizing thermoelectric (TE) materials are expected to be used for precise
temperature management in 5G and next-generation communication technologies. This …

Discovery of ZrCoBi based half Heuslers with high thermoelectric conversion efficiency

H Zhu, R He, J Mao, Q Zhu, C Li, J Sun, W Ren… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting waste heat into electricity. The
dimensionless figure-of-merit (ZT), as the critical measure for the material's thermoelectric …

Grain boundary dominated charge transport in Mg 3 Sb 2-based compounds

JJ Kuo, SD Kang, K Imasato, H Tamaki… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermally activated mobility near room temperature is a signature of detrimental scattering
that limits the efficiency and figure-of-merit zT in thermoelectric semiconductors. This effect …

[HTML][HTML] Entropy engineering: An innovative strategy for designing high-performance thermoelectric materials and devices

R Moshwan, XL Shi, WD Liu, J Liu, ZG Chen - Nano Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Entropy engineering in thermoelectric materials involves a deliberate manipulation of
entropy-related effects to boost performance. It revolves around designing materials to …