Insights into low thermal conductivity in inorganic materials for thermoelectrics

T Ghosh, M Dutta, D Sarkar… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efficient manipulation of thermal conductivity and fundamental understanding of the
microscopic mechanisms of phonon scattering in crystalline solids are crucial to achieve …

Cu2Se thermoelectrics: property, methodology, and device

WD Liu, L Yang, ZG Chen - Nano Today, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Extreme phonon anharmonicity underpins superionic diffusion and ultralow thermal conductivity in argyrodite Ag8SnSe6

Q Ren, MK Gupta, M **, J Ding, J Wu, Z Chen, S Lin… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Ultralow thermal conductivity and fast ionic diffusion endow superionic materials with
excellent performance both as thermoelectric converters and as solid-state electrolytes. Yet …

Cu 2 Se-Based liquid-like thermoelectric materials: looking back and step** forward

Z Zhang, K Zhao, TR Wei, P Qiu, L Chen… - Energy & Environmental …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Blocking Ion Migration Stabilizes the High Thermoelectric Performance in Cu2Se Composites

D Yang, X Su, J Li, H Bai, S Wang, Z Li… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The applications of mixed ionic–electronic conductors are limited due to phase instability
under a high direct current and large temperature difference. Here, it is shown that Cu2Se is …

Fast Na diffusion and anharmonic phonon dynamics in superionic Na 3 PS 4

MK Gupta, J Ding, NC Osti, DL Abernathy… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The design of new solid electrolytes (SEs) hinges on identifying and tuning relevant
descriptors. Phonons describe the atomic dynamics in crystalline materials and provide a …

High-TC Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric CuCrS2 Grown via Chemical Vapor Deposition

X Xu, T Zhong, N Zuo, Z Li, D Li, L Pi, P Chen, M Wu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics have attracted intensive attention. However, the 2D
ferroelectrics remain rare, and especially few of them represent high ferroelectric transition …

Renewing Fundamental Understanding of Ionic Transport in Inorganic Crystalline Solid‐State Electrolytes from the Perspective of Lattice Dynamics

T Song, Y Lin, D Wang, Q Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lattice dynamics has been widely employed to study various properties of crystalline
materials, by revealing the atomic vibration rules with phonon dispersion curves. Modulating …

Soft anharmonic phonons and ultralow thermal conductivity in Mg3(Sb, Bi)2 thermoelectrics

J Ding, T Lanigan-Atkins, M Calderón-Cueva… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The candidate thermoelectric compounds Mg3Sb2 and Mg3Bi2 show excellent performance
near ambient temperature, enabled by an anomalously low lattice thermal conductivity (κl) …

Phonon–ion interactions: designing ion mobility based on lattice dynamics

S Muy, R Schlem, Y Shao‐Horn… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review is focused on the influence of lattice dynamics on the ionic mobility in superionic
conductors in particular solid‐state Li‐ion conductors. After a succinct review of the static …