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 …

Machine learning interatomic potentials as emerging tools for materials science

VL Deringer, MA Caro, G Csányi - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic‐scale modeling and understanding of materials have made remarkable progress,
but they are still fundamentally limited by the large computational cost of explicit electronic …

The thermodynamic scale of inorganic crystalline metastability

W Sun, ST Dacek, SP Ong, G Hautier, A Jain… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The space of metastable materials offers promising new design opportunities for next-
generation technological materials, such as complex oxides, semiconductors …

Discovery of TaFeSb-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance

H Zhu, J Mao, Y Li, J Sun, Y Wang, Q Zhu, G Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Discovery of thermoelectric materials has long been realized by the Edisonian trial and error
approach. However, recent progress in theoretical calculations, including the ability to …

Discovery of new materials using combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization of thin-film materials libraries combined with computational methods

A Ludwig - NPJ Computational Materials, 2019 - nature.com
This perspective provides an experimentalist's view on materials discovery in multinary
materials systems—from nanoparticles over thin films to bulk—based on combinatorial thin …

Crystal structure prediction via deep learning

K Ryan, J Lengyel, M Shatruk - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the application of deep neural networks as a machine-learning tool for the
analysis of a large collection of crystallographic data contained in the crystal structure …

Prediction and accelerated laboratory discovery of previously unknown 18-electron ABX compounds

R Gautier, X Zhang, L Hu, L Yu, Y Lin, TOL Sunde… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Chemists and material scientists have often focused on the properties of previously reported
compounds, but neglect numerous unreported but chemically plausible compounds that …

Discovery of earth-abundant nitride semiconductors by computational screening and high-pressure synthesis

Y Hinuma, T Hatakeyama, Y Kumagai… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Nitride semiconductors are attractive because they can be environmentally benign,
comprised of abundant elements and possess favourable electronic properties. However …

Design and exploration of semiconductors from first principles: A review of recent advances

F Oba, Y Kumagai - Applied Physics Express, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent first-principles approaches to semiconductors are reviewed, with an emphasis on
theoretical insight into emerging materials and in silico exploration of as-yet-unreported …

Experimental synthesis of theoretically predicted multivalent ternary nitride materials

A Zakutayev, SR Bauers, S Lany - Chemistry of Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multivalent ternary nitride materials, which combine two metal cations with a nitrogen anion
in equal amounts and charge balanced stoichiometry, tend to have relatively simple …