Thermoelectric converter: Strategies from materials to device application

Z Wu, S Zhang, Z Liu, E Mu, Z Hu - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity, green technology which can convert huge free thermal energy to
electricity without time and geography limitations, is vital for bright future energy to alleviate …

Functional materials and innovative strategies for wearable thermal management applications

Y Jung, M Kim, T Kim, J Ahn, J Lee, SH Ko - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Highlights This article systematically reviews the thermal management wearables with a
specific emphasis on materials and strategies to regulate the human body temperature …

Low melting point alloys enabled stiffness tunable advanced materials

Y Hao, J Gao, Y Lv, J Liu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stiffness tunable advanced materials have demonstrated their superiority and versatility in
diverse areas, while the global pursuit of reversible, intelligent, and fast response for …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and challenges in inorganic bulk-based flexible thermoelectric devices

QY Liu, XL Shi, TY Cao, WY Chen, L Li… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of flexible thermoelectric devices (F-TEDs) has significantly improved their
thermoelectric performance and unique flexibility, with increasing efforts directed toward …

Rigidity‐Tunable Materials for Soft Engineering Systems

Y Roh, D Lim, M Kang, J Cho, S Han… - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Engineering systems that leverage the flexibility and softness of soft materials have been
fostering revolutionary progress and broad interest across various applications. The …

Tendon‐Driven Stiffness‐Tunable Soft Actuator via Thermoelectric‐based Bidirectional Temperature Control

Y Gao, S Lin, C Liang, S Qiu, C Long… - Advanced Materials …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots have excellent spatial adaptability and high flexibility, but they are limited by the
low stiffness of their constituent materials when faced with high‐load tasks. In recent years …

A miniaturized variable stiffness soft manipulator with a customizable LMPA pattern

C Hu, J Liu, J Chen, S Dai, J Wang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe human-robot interaction and excellent motion flexibility ensure a wide range of
potential applications for soft robots in industry and medicine. Although many efforts have …

Updates in phase change materials for thermoelectric devices: Status and challenges

R Pandey, P Thapa, V Kumar, Y Zhu, N Wang… - Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Materials are the backbone of our technology-driven society. Cutting-edge research on new
materials is trying to shape a better world. In this regard, the use of property-enhanced …

A flexible and smart shape memory alloy composite sheet based on efficient and bidirectional thermal management

Y Yang, Y Wang, T Yao, X Feng - International Journal of Smart …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Leveraging advances in shape memory alloys (SMAs) and flexible thermoelectric devices (f-
TEDs), this paper presents a structural and functional integrity composite sheet to address …

Temperature-and pressure-controlled insulator-conductor transition performance of flexible fluoroelastomer, tin bismuth alloy and carbon nanotube composites with a …

X Yan, J Guo, J **ong, X Jiang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, flexible insulator-conductor transition (ICT) composites have attracted much
attention, and they are of great interest for many applications, including smart switches …