Rationally designing high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

G Tan, LD Zhao, MG Kanatzidis - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
… in exploring highly efficient thermoelectric materials as a … high-performance bulk thermoelectric
materials. We begin … greatest thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of a given material by …

Recent advances in high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

X Shi, L Chen, C Uher - International Materials Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… In the past 10 years, the zTs in bulk TE materials have been significantly enhanced due to
… in bulk TE materials. After the introduction of fundamental principles of thermoelectricity, the …

Promising thermoelectric bulk materials with 2D structures

Y Zhou, LD Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… enhancing the thermoelectric performance, the transport mechanism in bulk materials with
2D … the thermoelectric performance of bulk materials with 2D structures are briefly considered. …

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects

AJ Minnich, MS Dresselhaus, ZF Ren… - Energy & Environmental …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
… properties obtained by exploiting nanoscale effects may allow thermoelectric devices to be
… in bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials, a type of thermoelectric material which has …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced thermoelectric performance of PbTe bulk materials with figure of merit zT> 2 by multi-functional alloying

T Fu, X Yue, H Wu, C Fu, T Zhu, X Liu, L Hu, P Ying… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
… In order to check the homogeneity of the large bulk and the repeatability of the TE performance,
we cut some small pellets from the large bulk to measure their properties, as shown in Fig…

High-thermoelectric performance of nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride bulk alloys

B Poudel, Q Hao, Y Ma, Y Lan, A Minnich, B Yu, X Yan… - science, 2008 - science.org
… We report a substantial ZT increase in bulk materials made from nanocrystalline (NC)
powders of p-type Bi x Sb 2–x Te 3 , reaching a peak ZT of 1.4 at 100C. The enhanced ZT is the …

Rapid preparation method of bulk nanostructured Yb0. 3Co4Sb12+ y compounds and their improved thermoelectric performance

H Li, X Tang, Q Zhang, C Uher - Applied Physics Letters, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
bulk nanostructured Yb 0.3 Co 4 Sb 12.3 reaches 1.3 at 800 K. The enhanced thermoelectric
performance … commercial-scale production of skutterudite-based thermoelectric materials. …

Material descriptors for predicting thermoelectric performance

J Yan, P Gorai, B Ortiz, S Miller, SA Barnett… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
… By using a single scalar quantity such as bulk modulus to describe the elastic properties
of materials, we were able to circumvent relatively complex and computationally costly …

Design and preparation of high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials with defect structures

KH Lee, SW Kim - Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society, 2017 - koreascience.kr
thermoelectric generators) and HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), high-performance
bulk thermoelectric materialsperformance of commercial thermoelectric materials

[HTML][HTML] Thermoelectric performance of Cu2Se bulk materials by high-temperature and high-pressure synthesis

L Xue, Z Zhang, W Shen, H Ma, Y Zhang, C Fang… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
… In this work, polycrystalline Cu 2 Se bulk materials were synthesized by the simple and …
and pressure on the thermoelectric properties of Cu 2 Se materials were investigated, and …