Inorganic thermoelectric materials: A review

MN Hasan, H Wahid, N Nayan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric generator, which converts heat into electrical energy, has great potential to
power portable devices. Nevertheless, the efficiency of a thermoelectric generator suffers …

Recent progress and future challenges on thermoelectric Zintl materials

J Shuai, J Mao, S Song, Q Zhang, G Chen… - Materials Today Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive interest in the last two decades due to
their potential applications in waste-heat recovery from industrial processes, automobiles …

[HTML][HTML] Key properties of inorganic thermoelectric materials—tables (version 1)

R Freer, D Ekren, T Ghosh, K Biswas… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

Symmetry‐Guaranteed High Carrier Mobility in Quasi‐2D Thermoelectric Semiconductors

S Zheng, S Xiao, K Peng, Y Pan, X Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quasi‐2D semiconductors have garnered immense research interest for next‐generation
electronics and thermoelectrics due to their unique structural, mechanical, and transport …

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 …

Hierarchical chemical bonds contributing to the intrinsically low thermal conductivity in α‐MgAgSb thermoelectric materials

P Ying, X Li, Y Wang, J Yang, C Fu… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the lattice dynamics and phonon transport from the perspective of chemical
bonds is essential for improving and finding high‐efficiency thermoelectric materials and for …

[HTML][HTML] High Power Factor vs. High zT—A Review of Thermoelectric Materials for High-Temperature Application

M Wolf, R Hinterding, A Feldhoff - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Energy harvesting with thermoelectric materials has been investigated with increasing
attention over recent decades. However, the vast number of various material classes makes …

Zintl-phase Eu2ZnSb2: A promising thermoelectric material with ultralow thermal conductivity

C Chen, W Xue, S Li, Z Zhang, X Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Zintl compounds are considered to be potential thermoelectric materials due to their
“phonon glass electron crystal”(PGEC) structure. A promising Zintl-phase thermoelectric …

Zintl phases with group 15 elements and the transition metals: A brief overview of pnictides with diverse and complex structures

A Ovchinnikov, S Bobev - Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Chemical combinations of metals with group 15 elements result in compounds
demonstrating a plethora of crystal structures. Many such compounds, referred to as …

NaCdSb: an orthorhombic Zintl phase with exceptional intrinsic thermoelectric performance

K Guo, Y Zhang, S Yuan, Q Tang, C Lin… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many Zintl phases are promising thermoelectric materials owning to their features like
narrow band gaps, multiband behaviors, ideal charge transport tunnels, and loosely bound …