Increasing the production of energy in line with industry development, transportation, and life
quality improvement is an interesting topic needs to be addressed. Energy policymakers and …

Thermoelectrics is attractive as a green and sustainable way for harnessing waste heat and
cooling applications. Designing high performance thermoelectrics involves navigating the …

BACKGROUND Heat and electricity are two forms of energy that are at opposite ends of a
spectrum. Heat is ubiquitous, but with low quality, whereas electricity is versatile, but its …

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

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 …

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 …

Thermoelectric materials are crucial in renewable energy conversion technologies to solve
the global energy crisis. They have been proven to be suitable for high-end technological …

Lattice vibrations in crystalline materials generate phonons as heat carriers for heat
conduction, and the phonon dispersion (energy versus momentum) is fundamentally …

Phonon scattering by nanostructures and point defects has become the primary strategy for
minimizing the lattice thermal conductivity (κL) in thermoelectric materials. However, these …

The broad-based implementation of thermoelectric materials in converting heat to electricity
hinges on the achievement of high conversion efficiency. Here we demonstrate a …