Advances in Ag2S-based thermoelectrics for wearable electronics: Progress and perspective

M Zhu, XL Shi, H Wu, Q Liu, ZG Chen - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional inorganic thermoelectric materials exhibit excellent thermoelectric performance
but poor flexibility. As a new type of flexible inorganic thermoelectric material, Ag 2 S owns a …

General strategies to improve thermoelectric performance with an emphasis on tin and germanium chalcogenides as thermoelectric materials

M Rakshit, D Jana, D Banerjee - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric (TE) materials have attracted tremendous research interests over the past
few decades, due to their application in power generation technology from waste heat …

Restructured single parabolic band model for quick analysis in thermoelectricity

J Zhu, X Zhang, M Guo, J Li, J Hu, S Cai… - npj Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
The single parabolic band (SPB) model has been widely used to preliminarily elucidate
inherent transport behaviors of thermoelectric (TE) materials, such as their band structure …

Physical Insights on the Lattice Softening Driven Mid‐Temperature Range Thermoelectrics of Ti/Zr‐Inserted SnTe—An Outlook Beyond the Horizons of Conventional …

AR Muchtar, B Srinivasan… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the best known SnTe‐based materials exhibit an attractive thermoelectric figure of
merit (zT) only at the high‐temperature regime, but their performance at the low‐mid …

Realizing N-type SnTe thermoelectrics with competitive performance through suppressing Sn vacancies

H Pang, Y Qiu, D Wang, Y Qin, R Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Due to the intrinsically plentiful Sn vacancies, develo** n-type SnTe thermoelectric
materials is a big challenge. Herein, n-type SnTe thermoelectric materials with remarkable …

Vacancy Manipulation Induced Optimal Carrier Concentration, Band Convergence and Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Nano‐Crystalline SnTe Yielding Superior …

T Zhang, W Pan, S Ning, N Qi, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Synergetic optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties is achieved for SnTe‐
based nano‐crystalline materials. Gd do** is able to suppress the Sn vacancy, which is …

Selective co-do** improves the thermoelectric performance of SnTe: an outcome of electronic structure engineering

US Shenoy, DK Bhat - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials which exhibit high performance throughout a range of temperature
is required for successful scavenging of waste heat to generate electricity. Herein, we tailor …

Lead-free SnTe-based compounds as advanced thermoelectrics

Y Zhang, J Sun, J Shuai, X Tang, G Tan - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials are able to realize the direct energy conversion between heat and
electricity and have great potential in power generation and Peltier cooling. SnTe, an old but …

Realizing ultrahigh room-temperature seebeck coefficient and thermoelectric properties in SnTe-based alloys through carrier modulation and band convergence

T Hong, C Guo, B Qin, X Zhang, X Gao, LD Zhao - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Seebeck coefficient is a crucial parameter in the field of thermoelectricity as it directly
impacts the output power of thermoelectric devices. Intrinsic SnTe thermoelectrics exhibit …

Vanadium: a protean dopant in SnTe for augmenting its thermoelectric performance

US Shenoy, DK Bhat - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, a second n-type resonant dopant in the form of vanadium is introduced in the
SnTe thermoelectrics family. The electronic structure simulated using density functional …