The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

Heat is abundantly available from various sources including solar irradiation, geothermal
energy, industrial processes, automobile exhausts, and from the human body and other …

With the development of microprocessors toward higher power, larger chip, and higher
frequency, heat dissipation is one of the central issues. Thermal interface materials (TIMs) …

Thermoelectric (TE) materials are auspicious candidates for direct thermal–electrical energy
conversion applications. Interface engineering is one of the key parameters to determine the …

Being light, cheap, breathable and foldable, paper is emerging as a new type of substrate for
flexible thermoelectric films. Several techniques including soaking and magnetron sputtering …

Graphite-related materials are commonly used as fillers in polymers to prepare thermal
interface materials (TIMs) with high thermal conductivity. The thermal contact resistance …

This review is concerned with the leading methods of bottom-up material preparation for
thermal-to-electrical energy interconversion. The advantages, capabilities, and challenges …

Demands on nontoxic nanomaterials in the short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) have rapidly
grown over the past decade. Here, we present the nonstoichiometric silver chalcogenide …

This paper demonstrates that thermal energy radiated from a human finger can be converted
efficiently into electricity by a nanocrystal (NC) thin film that substantially suppresses thermal …

From the material science community, metal telluride semiconductor nanostructures have
lately attracted a significant quantity of attention. On account of physics associated in …