With the ever‐increasing demand for wearable electronics and energy‐saving technologies,
self‐powered thermoelectric personal thermal management (PTM) has attracted extensive …

Thermoelectrics is attractive as a green and sustainable way for harnessing waste heat and
cooling applications. Designing high performance thermoelectrics involves navigating the …

Traditional cooling technologies, employing cooling refrigerants, have caused severe ozone
depletion and global warming. Alternatively, thermoelectric coolers, with the advantages of …

Two different heat-transport mechanisms are discussed in solids. In crystals, heat carriers
propagate and scatter particlelike as described by Peierls's formulation of the Boltzmann …

Band engineering is an effective strategy to improve the electronic transport properties of
semiconductors. In thermoelectric materials research, density‐of‐states effective mass is an …

Thermoelectric generators enable the conversion of waste heat to electricity, which is an
effective way to alleviate the global energy crisis. However, the inefficiency of thermoelectric …

The thermoelectric performance of a given material is closely related to its carrier
concentration. However, the maximum solubility of dopants in matrixes is a key limitation for …

High power factor contributes high power generation output while high bending resistance
extends the service life in flexible thermoelectric device. Here, we report an in situ grown 10 …

Over the past decade, thermoelectrics have progressed in leaps and bounds led by
advancements in their physical understanding and design. Figure of merit zT exceeding 2 …

For the application of thermoelectric materials, high figure-of-merit, ZT, endows them high
energy conversion efficiency, while robust mechanical hardness makes them tolerable to a …