Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
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 …

High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

High‐performance thermoelectric SnSe: aqueous synthesis, innovations, and challenges

XL Shi, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally
friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding …

Realization of high thermoelectric figure of merit in solution synthesized 2D SnSe nanoplates via Ge alloying

S Chandra, K Biswas - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
Recently single crystals of layered SnSe have created a paramount importance in
thermoelectrics owing to their ultralow lattice thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric …

Slowing down the heat in thermoelectrics

B Qin, D Wang, LD Zhao - InfoMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heat transport has various applications in solid materials. In particular, the thermoelectric
technology provides an alternative approach to traditional methods for waste heat recovery …

Polycrystalline SnSe with Extraordinary Thermoelectric Property via Nanoporous Design

X Shi, A Wu, W Liu, R Moshwan, Y Wang, ZG Chen… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanoporous materials possess low thermal conductivities derived from effective phonon
scatterings at grain boundaries and interfaces. Thus nanoporous thermoelectric materials …

Facile in situ solution synthesis of SnSe/rGO nanocomposites with enhanced thermoelectric performance

L Huang, J Lu, D Ma, C Ma, B Zhang, H Wang… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Constructing nanostructured composite architectures has been considered as an effective
strategy to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity (κL) and enhance the dimensionless figure …

Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type heavily Cu-doped polycrystalline SnSe via inducing intensive crystal imperfections and defect phonon scattering

X Shi, K Zheng, M Hong, W Liu, R Moshwan… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we, for the first time, report a high Cu solubility of 11.8% in single crystal SnSe
microbelts synthesized via a facile solvothermal route. The pellets sintered from these …

Rational structural design and manipulation advance SnSe thermoelectrics

XL Shi, WY Chen, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectrics can directly harvest electricity from waste heat through the Seebeck effect;
therefore, their use has been regarded as an eco-friendly and sustainable solution to …

Realizing high thermoelectric performance in n‐type highly distorted Sb‐doped SnSe microplates via tuning high electron concentration and inducing intensive crystal …

XL Shi, K Zheng, WD Liu, Y Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a record high figure of merit (ZT) of≈ 1.1 at 773 K is reported in n‐type highly
distorted Sb‐doped SnSe microplates via a facile solvothermal method. The pellets sintered …