Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

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 …

Recent progress on phase engineering of nanomaterials

Q Yun, Y Ge, Z Shi, J Liu, X Wang, A Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

D Beretta, N Neophytou, JM Hodges… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

Review of current high-ZT thermoelectric materials

J Wei, L Yang, Z Ma, P Song, M Zhang, J Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting heat and electricity to each other.
Thermoelectric devices can be miniaturized and highly integrated with existing …

Rationally designing high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

G Tan, LD Zhao, MG Kanatzidis - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
There has been a renaissance of interest in exploring highly efficient thermoelectric
materials as a possible route to address the worldwide energy generation, utilization, and …

Compound copper chalcogenide nanocrystals

C Coughlan, M Ibanez, O Dobrozhan, A Singh… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review captures the synthesis, assembly, properties, and applications of copper
chalcogenide NCs, which have achieved significant research interest in the last decade due …

Energy‐saving pathways for thermoelectric nanomaterial synthesis: hydrothermal/solvothermal, microwave‐assisted, solution‐based, and powder processing

N Nandihalli, DH Gregory, T Mori - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The pillars of Green Chemistry necessitate the development of new chemical
methodologies and processes that can benefit chemical synthesis in terms of energy …

Promising and Eco‐Friendly Cu2X‐Based Thermoelectric Materials: Progress and Applications

WD Liu, L Yang, ZG Chen, J Zou - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the nature of their liquid‐like behavior and high dimensionless figure of merit, Cu2X
(X= Te, Se, and S)‐based thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive attention. The …

Recent advances in thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, KK Kar - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials are crucial in renewable energy conversion technologies to solve
the global energy crisis. They have been proven to be suitable for high-end technological …