Thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive attentions due to their extensive
applications in thermoelectric refrigeration, waste heat recovery, aerospace and other fields …

Thermoelectric materials have attracted much interest for decades because of the
application to electricity generation and cooling based on the famous Seebeck and Peltier …

Over a decade ago, Dresselhaus predicted that low-dimensional systems would one day
serve as a route to enhanced thermoelectric performance. In this article, recent results in the …

Physical properties at the nanoscale are novel and different from those in bulk materials.
Over the last few decades, there has been an ever growing interest in the fabrication of …

Tian-Ran Wei is currently an assistant professor at the School of Materials Science and
Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained his PhD from Tsinghua University …

Typical measuring techniques of thermal conductivity, such as the steady heat flow method,
laser flash method,[3, 11] etc., require large size specimens and cannot obtain in-plane …

The demands for waste heat energy recovery from industrial production, solar energy, and
electronic devices have resulted in increasing attention being focused on thermoelectric …

Thermoelectric materials can be used for solid state power generation and heating/cooling
applications. The figure of merit of thermoelectric materials, ZT, which determines their …

In the current era where many renewable energy technologies are commercially mature and
optimized, thermoelectrics remain relatively under-utilized. This can be partly attributed to …

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 …