High-performance thermoelectrics and challenges for practical devices

Q Yan, MG Kanatzidis - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Thermoelectric materials can be potentially employed in solid-state devices that harvest
waste heat and convert it to electrical power, thereby improving the efficiency of fuel …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Evolution of defect structures leading to high ZT in GeTe-based thermoelectric materials

Y Jiang, J Dong, HL Zhuang, J Yu, B Su, H Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
GeTe is a promising mid-temperature thermoelectric compound but inevitably contains
excessive Ge vacancies hindering its performance maximization. This work reveals that …

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 …

Conducting polymer-based flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: from mechanisms to applications

S Xu, XL Shi, M Dargusch, C Di, J Zou… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conducting polymers have drawn considerable attention in the field of wearable and
implantable thermoelectric devices due to their unique advantages, including availability …

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 …

Roadmap on energy harvesting materials

V Pecunia, SRP Silva, JD Phillips… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and
address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …

A comprehensive review on perovskite and its functional composites in smart textiles: Progress, challenges, opportunities, and future directions

A Pandiyan, L Veeramuthu, ZL Yan, YC Lin… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Smart textiles are composed of multi-structured functional materials capable of producing
sensory responses and energy in response to environmental, chemical and physical stimuli …

Bi2Te3-based applied thermoelectric materials: research advances and new challenges

J Pei, B Cai, HL Zhuang, JF Li - National science review, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Thermoelectric (TE) materials can directly exchange heat and electricity in the solid state. TE
devices that do not contain moving parts or produce emissions have been commercialized …