Flexible thermoelectric materials and generators: challenges and innovations

Y Wang, L Yang, XL Shi, X Shi, L Chen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The urgent need for ecofriendly, stable, long‐lifetime power sources is driving the booming
market for miniaturized and integrated electronics, including wearable and medical …

Thermoelectric silver‐based chalcogenides

SY Tee, D Ponsford, CL Lay, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Heat is abundantly available from various sources including solar irradiation, geothermal
energy, industrial processes, automobile exhausts, and from the human body and other …

Topological quantum materials from the viewpoint of chemistry

N Kumar, SN Guin, K Manna, C Shekhar… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly
transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and …

Printing thermoelectric inks toward next-generation energy and thermal devices

M Zeng, D Zavanelli, J Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability of thermoelectric (TE) materials to convert thermal energy to electricity and vice
versa highlights them as a promising candidate for sustainable energy applications. Despite …

Ultrahigh power factor and flexible silver selenide-based composite film for thermoelectric devices

Y Lu, Y Qiu, K Cai, Y Ding, M Wang, C Jiang… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, an n-type Ag2Se/Ag/CuAgSe thermoelectric (TE) composite film supported by a
porous nylon membrane with a record power factor (2231.5 μW m− 1 K− 2 at 300 K) is …

Flexible thermoelectric devices of ultrahigh power factor by scalable printing and interface engineering

T Varghese, C Dun, N Kempf… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Printing is a versatile method to transform semiconducting nanoparticle inks into functional
and flexible devices. In particular, thermoelectric nanoparticles are attractive building blocks …

Colloidal nanoparticle inks for printing functional devices: emerging trends and future prospects

M Zeng, Y Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal nanoparticles have been widely studied and proven to have unique and superior
properties compared to their bulk form and are attractive building blocks for diverse …

High Power Factor Ag/Ag2Se Composite Films for Flexible Thermoelectric Generators

Q Gao, W Wang, Y Lu, K Cai, Y Li, Z Wang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, we fabricated an Ag/Ag2Se composite film on a flexible nylon membrane with a high
power factor and excellent flexibility. First, Ag nanoparticles and multiscale Ag2Se …

Ultrahigh performance PEDOT/Ag2Se/CuAgSe composite film for wearable thermoelectric power generators

Y Lu, Y Qiu, K Cai, X Li, M Gao, C Jiang, J He - Materials Today Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
The thermoelectric (TE) properties of organic/inorganic composite materials have been
extensively studied for nearly one decade but there still has no significant breakthrough …

Rational structural design and manipulation advance SnSe thermoelectrics

XL Shi, WY Chen, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectrics can directly harvest electricity from waste heat through the Seebeck effect;
therefore, their use has been regarded as an eco-friendly and sustainable solution to …