Thinking like a chemist: intuition in thermoelectric materials

WG Zeier, A Zevalkink, ZM Gibbs… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The coupled transport properties required to create an efficient thermoelectric material
necessitates a thorough understanding of the relationship between the chemistry and …

Recent advances in high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

X Shi, L Chen, C Uher - International Materials Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectric (TE) materials facilitate direct heat-to-electricity conversion. The performance
of a TE material is characterised by its figure of merit zT (= S 2 σT/κ) that depends on both …

Isotropic Conduction Network and Defect Chemistry in Mg3+δ Sb2 -Based Layered Zintl Compounds with High Thermoelectric Performance.

H Tamaki, HK Sato, T Kanno - Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach …, 2016 - europepmc.org
Thermoelectric performance in the layered Zintl phase n-type Mg 3+ δ (Sb, Bi) 2 is reported.
Insertion of the excess Mg into the compounds is crucial for realizing n-type carrier transport …

On the tuning of electrical and thermal transport in thermoelectrics: an integrated theory–experiment perspective

J Yang, L **, W Qiu, L Wu, X Shi, L Chen… - NPJ Computational …, 2016 - nature.com
During the last two decades, we have witnessed great progress in research on
thermoelectrics. There are two primary focuses. One is the fundamental understanding of …

Recent progress and future challenges on thermoelectric Zintl materials

J Shuai, J Mao, S Song, Q Zhang, G Chen… - Materials Today Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive interest in the last two decades due to
their potential applications in waste-heat recovery from industrial processes, automobiles …

Extraordinary thermoelectric performance in n-type manganese doped Mg3Sb2 Zintl: high band degeneracy, tuned carrier scattering mechanism and hierarchical …

X Chen, H Wu, J Cui, Y **ao, Y Zhang, J He, Y Chen… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Zintl phases are ideal candidates for thermoelectric applications due to their rich chemistry
and structural complexity. However, the persistent p-type conduction due to intrinsic defects …

Band engineering in Mg 3 Sb 2 by alloying with Mg 3 Bi 2 for enhanced thermoelectric performance

K Imasato, SD Kang, S Ohno, GJ Snyder - Materials Horizons, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Mg3Sb2–Mg3Bi2 alloys show excellent thermoelectric properties. The benefit of alloying
has been attributed to the reduction in lattice thermal conductivity. However, Mg3Bi2 …

Designing high-performance layered thermoelectric materials through orbital engineering

J Zhang, L Song, GKH Madsen, KFF Fischer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Thermoelectric technology, which possesses potential application in recycling industrial
waste heat as energy, calls for novel high-performance materials. The systematic …

Electronic, optical, and thermoelectric investigations of Zintl phase AAg2Se2 (A= Sr, Ba) compounds: A first-principle approach

D Behera, R Sharma, H Ullah, HS Waheed… - Journal of Solid State …, 2022 - Elsevier
We have studied the structural, optoelectronic, and thermoelectric properties of AAg 2 Se 2
(A​=​ Sr, Ba) compounds using first-principles calculations. We found that these …

Material descriptors for predicting thermoelectric performance

J Yan, P Gorai, B Ortiz, S Miller, SA Barnett… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In the context of materials design and high-throughput computational searches for new
thermoelectric materials, the need to compute electron and phonon transport properties …