Heat transport has various applications in solid materials. In particular, the thermoelectric
technology provides an alternative approach to traditional methods for waste heat recovery …

Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion between waste heat and electric
energy, playing an important role in alleviating energy crisis. Many excellent thermoelectrics …

This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

Develo** thermoelectric (TE) performance is impeded by the compromise of TE
parameters, resulting in inadequate conversion efficiency of heat to electricity. Herein, this …

GeTe is among the most fascinating inorganic compounds for thermoelectric (TE)
conversion of waste heat into electricity. However, the TE performance in its ambient …

Balancing the contradictory relationship between thermoelectric parameters, such as
effective mass and carrier mobility, is a challenge to optimize thermoelectric performance …

Metavalent bonding is a unique bonding mechanism responsible for exceptional properties
of materials used in thermoelectric, phase-change, and optoelectronic devices. For …

The binary compound of GeTe emerging as a potential medium-temperature thermoelectric
material has drawn a great deal of attention. Here, we achieve ultralow lattice thermal …

Thermoelectric (TE) materials have attracted tremendous research interests over the past
few decades, due to their application in power generation technology from waste heat …

The highly enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit, zT≈ 2.6 at 573 K, obtained recently in
Cd-doped polycrystalline AgSbTe2 by Roychowdhury et al.(Science 2021, 371, 722) brings …