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 …

High‐performance thermoelectric SnSe: aqueous synthesis, innovations, and challenges

XL Shi, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally
friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding …

Achieving high thermoelectric figure of merit in polycrystalline SnSe via introducing Sn vacancies

W Wei, C Chang, T Yang, J Liu, H Tang… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric power generation technology has emerged as a clean “heat engine” that can
convert heat to electricity. Recently, the discovery of an ultrahigh thermoelectric figure of …

Recent advances in SnSe nanostructures beyond thermoelectricity

F Li, H Wang, R Huang, W Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Layered SnSe is an emerging class of black phosphorus, which is non‐toxic, eco‐friendly,
and chemically stable. Recently, SnSe nanostructures have triggered more research interest …

Lattice strain leads to high thermoelectric performance in polycrystalline SnSe

X Lou, S Li, X Chen, Q Zhang, H Deng, J Zhang, D Li… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polycrystalline SnSe materials with ZT values comparable to those of SnSe crystals are
greatly desired due to facile processing, machinability, and scale-up application. Here …

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 …

Quadruple-band synglisis enables high thermoelectric efficiency in earth-abundant tin sulfide crystals

S Liu, S Bai, Y Wen, J Lou, Y Jiang, Y Zhu, D Liu, Y Li… - Science, 2025 - science.org
Thermoelectrics have been limited by the scarcity of their constituent elements, especially
telluride. The earth-abundant, wide-bandgap (E g≈ 46 k BT) tin sulfide (SnS) has shown …

Realizing high thermoelectric performance in n‐type highly distorted Sb‐doped SnSe microplates via tuning high electron concentration and inducing intensive crystal …

XL Shi, K Zheng, WD Liu, Y Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a record high figure of merit (ZT) of≈ 1.1 at 773 K is reported in n‐type highly
distorted Sb‐doped SnSe microplates via a facile solvothermal method. The pellets sintered …

Realizing the high thermoelectric performance of highly preferentially oriented SnSe based nanorods via band alignment

Y Gong, P Ying, Q Zhang, Y Liu, X Huang… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polycrystalline SnSe is considered as a highly promising candidate for thermoelectric
applications due to its facile processing, machinability and scale-up applications. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the synthesis, properties, and applications of bulk and two-dimensional tin (II) sulfide (SnS)

KJ Norton, F Alam, DJ Lewis - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tin (II) sulfide (SnS) is an attractive semiconductor for solar energy conversion in thin film
devices due to its bandgap of around 1.3 eV in its orthorhombic polymorph, and a band gap …