Carrier grain boundary scattering in thermoelectric materials

C Hu, K **a, C Fu, X Zhao, T Zhu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Bulk nanostructuring has been one of the leading strategies employed in the past decade for
the optimization of thermoelectric properties by introducing strong grain boundary scattering …

Thermoelectric Generators: A comprehensive review of characteristics and applications

F Tohidi, SG Holagh, A Chitsaz - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy crisis and associated environmental issues are the main challenges in today's
changing world, where there is a growing demand for electricity. To address such …

High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling

L Su, D Wang, S Wang, B Qin, Y Wang, Y Qin, Y **… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials allow for direct conversion between heat and electricity, offering
the potential for power generation. The average dimensionless figure of merit ZT ave …

Defect engineering in thermoelectric materials: what have we learned?

Y Zheng, TJ Slade, L Hu, XY Tan, Y Luo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric energy conversion is an all solid-state technology that relies on exceptional
semiconductor materials that are generally optimized through sophisticated strategies …

Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature

V Tshitoyan, J Dagdelen, L Weston, A Dunn, Z Rong… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The overwhelming majority of scientific knowledge is published as text, which is difficult to
analyse by either traditional statistical analysis or modern machine learning methods. By …

Review of thermoelectric generation for internal combustion engine waste heat recovery

NV Burnete, F Mariasiu, C Depcik, I Barabas… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the current emphasis on electrified vehicles, the use of internal combustion engines
(ICEs) as the main propulsion source is challenged, especially for passenger cars. Even …

Energy filtering of charge carriers: current trends, challenges, and prospects for thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, Y Amouyal - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of
thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy …

Advances in thermoelectrics

J Mao, Z Liu, J Zhou, H Zhu, Q Zhang, G Chen… - Advances in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

Discovery of TaFeSb-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance

H Zhu, J Mao, Y Li, J Sun, Y Wang, Q Zhu, G Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Discovery of thermoelectric materials has long been realized by the Edisonian trial and error
approach. However, recent progress in theoretical calculations, including the ability to …

Thermoelectric devices: a review of devices, architectures, and contact optimization

R He, G Schierning, K Nielsch - Advanced Materials …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the substantially improved performance of thermoelectric (TE) materials has
attracted considerable interest in studying the potential applications of the TE technique …