Due to the nature of their liquid‐like behavior and high dimensionless figure of merit, Cu2X
(X= Te, Se, and S)‐based thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive attention. The …

Thermoelectric technology has attracted great attention due to its ability to recover and
convert waste heat into readily available electric energy. Among the various candidate …

Zintl compounds make excellent thermoelectrics with many opportunities for chemically
tuning their electronic and thermal transport properties. However, the majority of Zintl …

With accelerating trends in miniaturization of semiconductor devices, techniques for energy
harvesting become increasingly important, especially in wearable technologies and sensors …

Thermally activated mobility near room temperature is a signature of detrimental scattering
that limits the efficiency and figure-of-merit zT in thermoelectric semiconductors. This effect …

In the last decade, high-performance Cu 2 Se thermoelectric materials and devices are
attracting increasing research interest. In this review, we firstly summarize fundamentals of …

In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

High-performance liquid-like thermoelectrics have attracted global renewed attention since
the paradigm of 'phonon-liquid electron-crystal'was proposed in 2012. As one of the most …

A thermoelectric material consisting of Cu 2 Se incorporated with up to 0.45 wt% of
graphene nanoplates is reported. The carbon-reinforced Cu 2 Se exhibits an ultra-high …

Thermoelectric materials require an optimal carrier concentration to maximize electrical
transport and thus thermoelectric performance. Element do** and composition off …