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 …

[HTML][HTML] Thermoelectric materials: Energy conversion between heat and electricity

X Zhang, LD Zhao - Journal of Materiomics, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials have drawn vast attentions for centuries, because thermoelectric
effects enable direct conversion between thermal and electrical energy, thus providing an …

Ultrahigh power factor and thermoelectric performance in hole-doped single-crystal SnSe

LD Zhao, G Tan, S Hao, J He, Y Pei, H Chi, H Wang… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology, harvesting electric power directly from heat, is a promising
environmentally friendly means of energy savings and power generation. The thermoelectric …

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 …

Polymer based thermoelectric nanocomposite materials and devices: Fabrication and characteristics

N Nandihalli, CJ Liu, T Mori - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Organic thermoelectric (TE) materials capitalize on advantages such as low thermal
conductivity, low-cost, eco-friendly, versatile processability, light-weight, mechanical …

High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

Advances in thermoelectrics

J Mao, Z Liu, J Zhou, H Zhu, Q Zhang, G Chen… - Advances in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

Orbitally driven giant phonon anharmonicity in SnSe

CW Li, J Hong, AF May, D Bansal, S Chi, T Hong… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding elementary excitations and their couplings in condensed matter systems is
critical for develo** better energy-conversion devices. In thermoelectric materials, the heat …

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 …

Flexible thermoelectric materials and device optimization for wearable energy harvesting

JH Bahk, H Fang, K Yazawa, A Shakouri - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, we review recent advances in the development of flexible thermoelectric
materials and devices for wearable human body-heat energy harvesting applications. We …