Advances in thermoelectric materials research: Looking back and moving forward

J He, TM Tritt - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Heat and electricity are two forms of energy that are at opposite ends of a
spectrum. Heat is ubiquitous, but with low quality, whereas electricity is versatile, but its …

Lattice dynamics and thermoelectric properties of diamondoid materials

H Xie, LD Zhao, MG Kanatzidis - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The diamondoid compounds are a large family of important semiconductors, which possess
various unique transport properties and had been widely investigated in the fields of …

High-performance in n-type PbTe-based thermoelectric materials achieved by synergistically dynamic doping and energy filtering

HT Liu, Q Sun, Y Zhong, Q Deng, L Gan, FL Lv, XL Shi… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of n-type high-performance PbTe thermoelectric materials for matching its
p-type counterparts is an urgent matter to expand its practical applications. Here, we …

Superparamagnetic enhancement of thermoelectric performance

W Zhao, Z Liu, Z Sun, Q Zhang, P Wei, X Mu, H Zhou… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The ability to control chemical and physical structuring at the nanometre scale is important
for developing high-performance thermoelectric materials. Progress in this area has been …

High efficiency GeTe-based materials and modules for thermoelectric power generation

T Xing, Q Song, P Qiu, Q Zhang, M Gu, X Xia… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe-Based materials have great potential to be used in thermoelectric generators for waste
heat recovery due to their excellent thermoelectric performance, but their module research is …

Recent advances in liquid‐like thermoelectric materials

K Zhao, P Qiu, X Shi, L Chen - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric technology has attracted great attention due to its ability to recover and
convert waste heat into readily available electric energy. Among the various candidate …

A review of CoSb3-based skutterudite thermoelectric materials

ZY Liu, JL Zhu, X Tong, S Niu, WY Zhao - Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2020 - Springer
The binary skutterudite CoSb 3 is a narrow bandgap semiconductor thermoelectric (TE)
material with a relatively flat band structure and excellent electrical performance. However …

[HTML][HTML] A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization

A Zevalkink, DM Smiadak, JL Blackburn… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The study of thermoelectric materials spans condensed matter physics, materials science
and engineering, and solid-state chemistry. The diversity of the participants and the inherent …

Realizing high performance n-type PbTe by synergistically optimizing effective mass and carrier mobility and suppressing bipolar thermal conductivity

Y Xiao, H Wu, J Cui, D Wang, L Fu, Y Zhang… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric materials enable direct inter-conversion between electrical energy and
thermal energy. The conversion efficiency is limited by their complex interdependent …

Multi‐scale microstructural thermoelectric materials: transport behavior, non‐equilibrium preparation, and applications

X Su, P Wei, H Li, W Liu, Y Yan, P Li, C Su… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Considering only about one third of the world's energy consumption is effectively utilized for
functional uses, and the remaining is dissipated as waste heat, thermoelectric (TE) …