Bottom-up design of de novo thermoelectric hybrid materials using chalcogenide resurfacing

A Sahu, B Russ, NC Su, JD Forster, P Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Hybrid organic/inorganic thermoelectric materials based on conducting polymers and
inorganic nanostructures have been demonstrated to combine both the inherently low …

Tailoring thermoelectric transport properties of Ag-alloyed PbTe: Effects of microstructure evolution

A Sheskin, T Schwarz, Y Yu, S Zhang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Capturing and converting waste heat into electrical power through thermoelectric generators
based on the Seebeck effect is a promising alternative energy source. Among thermoelectric …

Unraveling the Structure-Valence-Property Relationships in AMM′Q3 Chalcogenides with Promising Thermoelectric Performance

K Pal, X Hua, Y Xia, C Wolverton - ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Properties of solids are strongly influenced by their crystal structures. Learning from the
structure–property relationships of existing high-performance thermoelectrics (TEs), here we …

The complexity of thermoelectric materials: why we need powerful and brilliant synchrotron radiation sources?

W Xu, Y Liu, A Marcelli, PP Shang, WS Liu - Materials Today Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
Tuning the transport properties between heat flux and electrical current may allow
increasing the efficiency of thermoelectric materials, complex systems that hold great …

Investigation on carrier mobility when comparing nanostructures and bands manipulation

Z Hou, Y Xiao, LD Zhao - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructuring as an effective strategy to reduce thermal conductivity was well developed
to enhance thermoelectric performance in the past decades. However, electrical transport …

Thermoelectric performance of ternary Cu-based chalcogenide Cu2TiTe3

Y Xiong, Z Jin, T Deng, P Qiu, L Xi, J Yang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we report the ternary Cu-based chalcogenide, Cu 2 TiTe 3, as a promising
thermoelectric material in middle-temperature range. The bonding interaction between Te p …

Data analytics accelerates the experimental discovery of Cu 1− x Ag x GaTe 2 based thermoelectric chalcogenides with high figure of merit

Y Zhong, X Hu, D Sarker, X Su, Q Xia, L Xu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric (TE) materials allow us to harvest energy practically from any heat source,
including heat that would be otherwise wasted. This huge promise of energy harvesting is …

Understanding the thermally activated charge transport in NaPb m SbQ m+ 2 (Q= S, Se, Te) thermoelectrics: weak dielectric screening leads to grain boundary …

TJ Slade, JA Grovogui, JJ Kuo, S Anand… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Many thermoelectric materials feature irregular electrical conductivity with thermally
activated transport below∼ 600 K and metallic behavior at high temperatures, despite …

Phase-boundary mapping to engineer defects in thermoelectric materials

L Borgsmiller, D Zavanelli, GJ Snyder - PRX Energy, 2022 - APS
The optimization of thermoelectric materials for use in various applications, such as
spacecraft power generation, waste heat recovery, and Peltier coolers, requires a careful …

High-performance and stable AgSbTe2-based thermoelectric materials for near room temperature applications

Y Wu, P Qiu, Y Yu, Y Xiong, T Deng… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
AgSbTe 2-based ternary chalcogenides show excellent thermoelectric performance at low-
and middle-temperature ranges, yet their practical applications are greatly limited by their …