Review of current high-ZT thermoelectric materials

J Wei, L Yang, Z Ma, P Song, M Zhang, J Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting heat and electricity to each other.
Thermoelectric devices can be miniaturized and highly integrated with existing …

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 …

A solvothermal synthetic environmental design for high‐performance SnSe‐based thermoelectric materials

XL Shi, WD Liu, M Li, Q Sun, SD Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
SnSe is challenging to use in thermoelectric devices due to difficulties in simultaneously
optimizing its thermoelectric and mechanical properties. Here, the authors show a unique …

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 …

High‐performance thermoelectric SnSe: aqueous synthesis, innovations, and challenges

XL Shi, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally
friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding …

Distinct Impact of Alkali-Ion Do** on Electrical Transport Properties of Thermoelectric p-Type Polycrystalline SnSe

TR Wei, G Tan, X Zhang, CF Wu, JF Li… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recent findings about ultrahigh thermoelectric performance in SnSe single crystals have
stimulated related research on this simple binary compound, which is focused mostly on its …

Texture-dependent thermoelectric properties of nano-structured Bi2Te3

D Bao, J Chen, Y Yu, W Liu, L Huang, G Han… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In this study, Bi 2 Te 3 nanostructures were synthesized with controlled
morphologies by using a solvothermal process and then sintered by spark plasma sintering …

Thermoelectric power generation: from new materials to devices

G Tan, M Ohta, MG Kanatzidis - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Thermoelectric technology offers the opportunity of direct conversion between heat and
electricity, and new and exciting materials that can enable this technology to deliver higher …

Chalcogenides as thermoelectric materials

Y Shi, C Sturm, H Kleinke - Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials can be utilized to generate electricity from a temperature gradient,
thereby recycling the nowadays abundant waste heat, as well as for cooling applications by …

Realizing High Figure of Merit in Phase-Separated Polycrystalline Sn1–xPbxSe

G Tang, W Wei, J Zhang, Y Li, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Solid-state thermoelectric technology, interconverting heat to electrical energy, offers a
promising solution for relaxing global energy problems. A high dimensionless figure of merit …