Advances in half-Heusler alloys for thermoelectric power generation

RJ Quinn, JWG Bos - Materials Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Half-Heusler alloys are leading candidate materials for large scale thermoelectric power
generation. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to the …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges for thermoelectric power generation: from a material perspective

Z Liu, W Gao, F Guo, W Cai, Q Zhang, J Sui - Materials Lab, 2022 - matlab.labapress.com
Thermoelectric devices enable the direct conversion of heat flux into electrical energy, which
have attracted considerable research interests for energy harvesting to address the …

Demonstration of ultrahigh thermoelectric efficiency of∼ 7.3% in Mg3Sb2/MgAgSb module for low-temperature energy harvesting

Z Liu, N Sato, W Gao, K Yubuta, N Kawamoto… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Thermoelectric harvesting of low-temperature waste heat offers great opportunities for
sustainable energy production. However, the investigations of related thermoelectric …

Strong phonon softening and avoided crossing in aliovalence-doped heavy-band thermoelectrics

S Han, S Dai, J Ma, Q Ren, C Hu, Z Gao, M Duc Le… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Aliovalent do** is a way to optimize the electrical properties of semiconductors, but its
impact on the phonon structure and propagation is seldom considered properly. Here we …

Half-Heusler alloys as emerging high power density thermoelectric cooling materials

H Zhu, W Li, A Nozariasbmarz, N Liu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To achieve optimal thermoelectric performance, it is crucial to manipulate the scattering
processes within materials to decouple the transport of phonons and electrons. In half …

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 …

Physics-guided co-designing flexible thermoelectrics with techno-economic sustainability for low-grade heat harvesting

Y Zhou, X Liu, B Jia, T Ding, D Mao, T Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Flexible thermoelectric harvesting of omnipresent spatial thermodynamic energy, though
promising in low-grade waste heat recovery (< 100° C), is still far from industrialization …

High Thermoelectric Performance in Earth‐Abundant Cu3SbS4 by Promoting Do** Efficiency via Rational Vacancy Design

D Zhang, X Wang, H Wu, Y Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfides are well investigated as thermoelectric materials but their performance is typically
limited by low electrical conductivity. High electrical performance in Cu3SbS4 is reported by …

High thermoelectric performance enabled by convergence of nested conduction bands in Pb7Bi4Se13 with low thermal conductivity

L Hu, YW Fang, F Qin, X Cao, X Zhao, Y Luo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Thermoelectrics enable waste heat recovery, holding promises in relieving energy and
environmental crisis. Lillianite materials have been long-term ignored due to low …

Defect engineering advances thermoelectric materials

C Wu, XL Shi, L Wang, W Lyu, P Yuan, L Cheng… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Defect engineering is an effective method for tuning the performance of thermoelectric
materials and shows significant promise in advancing thermoelectric performance. Given the …