Half-Heusler alloys are leading candidate materials for large scale thermoelectric power
generation. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to the …

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 …

Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

For several decades, thermoelectric advancements have largely relied on the reduction of
lattice thermal conductivity (κL). According to the Boltzmann transport theory of phonons, κL …

Half-Heusler compounds based on XNiSn and XCoSb (X= Ti, Zr or Hf) have rapidly become
important thermoelectric materials for converting waste heat into electricity. In this Review …

Half‐Heusler (HH) compounds have gained ever‐increasing popularity as promising high
temperature thermoelectric materials. High figure of merit zT of≈ 1.0 above 1000 K has …

BiCuSeO oxyselenides have recently acquired ever-increasing attention and have been
extensively studied as very promising thermoelectric materials. The ZT of the BiCuSeO …

Heusler compounds are a remarkable class of intermetallic materials with 1: 1: 1 (often
called Half-Heusler) or 2: 1: 1 composition comprising more than 1500 members. Today …

The lattice thermal conductivity (κ ω) is a key property for many potential applications of
compounds. Discovery of materials with very low or high κ ω remains an experimental …

Half-Heusler thermoelectric materials have been attracting extensive research interest over
the last two decades. In this mini-review article, we summarize the synthesis methods for …