Accompanied by enhancements in the ability to fabricate materials for humans, alloy-based
materials have advanced from binary alloy systems to complicated compositions along with …

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

Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and
address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …

Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of
thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy …

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three-dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic
excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three-dimensional analogs of …

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 …

The past two decades have witnessed the rapid growth of thermoelectric (TE) research.
Novel concepts and paradigms are described here that have emerged, targeting superior TE …

In past centuries, men have mainly looked to increase their production of energy in order to
develop their industry, means of transport and quality of life. Since the recent energy crisis …

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

For half a century, only Bi2Te3-based thermoelectrics have been commercialized for near
room temperature applications including both power generation and refrigeration. Because …