Flexible thermoelectric materials and generators: challenges and innovations

Y Wang, L Yang, XL Shi, X Shi, L Chen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The urgent need for ecofriendly, stable, long‐lifetime power sources is driving the booming
market for miniaturized and integrated electronics, including wearable and medical …

Compromise and synergy in high‐efficiency thermoelectric materials

T Zhu, Y Liu, C Fu, JP Heremans, JG Snyder… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid growth of thermoelectric (TE) research.
Novel concepts and paradigms are described here that have emerged, targeting superior TE …

Energy‐saving pathways for thermoelectric nanomaterial synthesis: hydrothermal/solvothermal, microwave‐assisted, solution‐based, and powder processing

N Nandihalli, DH Gregory, T Mori - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The pillars of Green Chemistry necessitate the development of new chemical
methodologies and processes that can benefit chemical synthesis in terms of energy …

Superparamagnetic enhancement of thermoelectric performance

W Zhao, Z Liu, Z Sun, Q Zhang, P Wei, X Mu, H Zhou… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The ability to control chemical and physical structuring at the nanometre scale is important
for develo** high-performance thermoelectric materials. Progress in this area has been …

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 …

Routes for high-performance thermoelectric materials

X Zhou, Y Yan, X Lu, H Zhu, X Han, G Chen, Z Ren - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials can be used in direct conversion of heat to electricity and vice
versa. The past decade has witnessed the rapid growth of thermoelectric research, targeting …

Recent advances in high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

X Shi, L Chen, C Uher - International Materials Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectric (TE) materials facilitate direct heat-to-electricity conversion. The performance
of a TE material is characterised by its figure of merit zT (= S 2 σT/κ) that depends on both …

On the tuning of electrical and thermal transport in thermoelectrics: an integrated theory–experiment perspective

J Yang, L **, W Qiu, L Wu, X Shi, L Chen… - NPJ Computational …, 2016 - nature.com
During the last two decades, we have witnessed great progress in research on
thermoelectrics. There are two primary focuses. One is the fundamental understanding of …

A review of CoSb3-based skutterudite thermoelectric materials

ZY Liu, JL Zhu, X Tong, S Niu, WY Zhao - Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2020 - Springer
The binary skutterudite CoSb 3 is a narrow bandgap semiconductor thermoelectric (TE)
material with a relatively flat band structure and excellent electrical performance. However …

Convergence of multi-valley bands as the electronic origin of high thermoelectric performance in CoSb3 skutterudites

Y Tang, ZM Gibbs, LA Agapito, G Li, HS Kim… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Filled skutterudites R x Co4Sb12 are excellent n-type thermoelectric materials owing to their
high electronic mobility and high effective mass, combined with low thermal conductivity …