The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

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

GeTe is a promising mid-temperature thermoelectric compound but inevitably contains
excessive Ge vacancies hindering its performance maximization. This work reveals that …

With the growing demand for solid, portable, and wearable electronics, exploring recyclable
and stable charging and cooling techniques is of significance. Fiber-based thermoelectrics …

Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting heat and electricity to each other.
Thermoelectric devices can be miniaturized and highly integrated with existing …

In the present work, Janus monolayers WSSe and WSTe are investigated by combining first-
principles calculations and semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory. Janus WSSe and …

GeTe is a promising p-type material with increasingly enhanced thermoelectric properties
reported in recent years, demonstrating its superiority for mid-temperature applications. In …

In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

Thermoelectrics, enabling direct converting between heat and electricity, have become one
of the most promising techniques for the realization of energy-saving and environmental …

Thermoelectrics enable direct heat-to-electricity transformation, but their performance has so
far been restricted by the closely coupled carrier and phonon transport. Here, we …