Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

Clathrates represent a fascinating class of inorganic materials with a unique structural motif:
3D framework with large polyhedral cages encapsulating guest ions. Weak electrostatic …

This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

The remarkable optoelectronic and especially photovoltaic performance of hybrid organic–
inorganic perovskite (HOIP) materials drives efforts to connect materials properties to this …

The goal of waste heat recovery using high-performance thermoelectric materials has
promoted the development of promising materials with enhanced performance. Here …

The successful demonstration of monolayer films as promising thermoelectric materials
highlights alternative strategies to nanostructuring for achieving high thermoelectric …

Clathrate phases with crystal structures exhibiting complex disorder have been the subject
of many prior studies. Here we report syntheses, crystal and electronic structure, and …

Crystalline solids are generally known as excellent heat conductors, amorphous materials or
glasses as thermal insulators. It has thus come as a surprise that certain crystal structures …

Three novel unconventional clathrates with unprecedented III–V semiconducting
frameworks have been synthesized: Cs8In27Sb19, Cs8Ga27Sb19, and Rb8Ga27Sb19 …

A new topology previously unknown in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) provides an
important clue to uncovering a new series of polyhedral MOFs. We report a novel MOF …