Advances in ionic thermoelectrics: from materials to devices

S Sun, M Li, XL Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As an extended member of the thermoelectric family, ionic thermoelectrics (i‐TEs) exhibit
exceptional Seebeck coefficients and applicable power factors, and as a result have …

Soft fiber electronics based on semiconducting polymer

F Sun, H Jiang, H Wang, Y Zhong, Y Xu, Y Xing… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fibers, originating from nature and mastered by human, have woven their way throughout
the entire history of human civilization. Recent developments in semiconducting polymer …

Smart window technology and its potential for net-zero buildings: a review

MN Mustafa, MAAM Abdah, A Numan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The energy consumption of buildings, particularly heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
systems, exceeds that of transportation and industry combined. Future projections show a …

High thermoelectric and mechanical performance achieved by a hyperconverged electronic structure and low lattice thermal conductivity in GeTe through CuInTe 2 …

H Kim, SK Kihoi, US Shenoy, JN Kahiu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe-based thermoelectric materials have a very high hole carrier concentration (∼ 1021
cm− 3), and thus, improving the figure of merit, ZT, is substantially challenging. In this work …

Tellurium-nanowire-doped thermoelectric hydrogel with high stretchability and seebeck coefficient for low-grade heat energy harvesting

S Kong, Z Huang, Y Hu, Y Jiang, Y Lu, W Zhao, Q Shi… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
To harvest low-grade heat energy from human body, flexible thermoelectric generators
(TEGs) are highly necessitated and have attracted significant interests. However, developing …

On-the-fly machine learning potential accelerated accurate prediction of lattice thermal conductivity of metastable silicon crystals

C Cui, Y Zhang, T Ouyang, M Chen, C Tang… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
In this paper, we propose a convenient strategy to accelerate the evaluation of lattice
thermal conductivity through combining phonon Boltzmann transport equation (PBTE) and …

Recent advances in thermoelectric performance by incorporating graphene-based materials for energy harvesting

E Muchuweni, ET Mombeshora - Renewable Energy Focus, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) have attracted considerable research attention in
addressing the current global energy crisis and environmental concerns associated with …

Atomistic simulation of thermoelectric properties in cove-edged graphene nanoribbons

ZX Xie, XK Chen, X Yu, YX Deng, Y Zhang… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present an atomistic simulation of thermoelectric properties in cove-edged graphene
nanoribbons (CGNRs) via the nonequilibrium Greenes function. Different from gapless …

Comparative analysis of organic rankine cycle, Kalina cycle and thermoelectric generator to recover waste heat based on energy, exergy, economic and …

Y Lan, S Wang, J Lu, H Zhai, L Mu - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Recovering waste heat below 100° C, accounting for 60% of the whole waste heat, the
Organic Rankine cycle (ORC), Kalina cycle (KC) and thermoelectric generator (TEG) are the …

Enhanced thermoelectric performance in Bi 0.5 Sb 1.5 Te 3/SiC composites prepared by low-temperature liquid phase sintering

B Zhu, Y Luo, H Wu, D Sun, L Liu, S Shu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Amongst thermoelectrics, Bi2Te3 is special owing to its peak performance near room
temperature, which enables it to be used for both energy harvesting and cooling. Despite …