Thermoelectric generator, which converts heat into electrical energy, has great potential to
power portable devices. Nevertheless, the efficiency of a thermoelectric generator suffers …

Energy harvesters (EHs) are widely used to transform ambient energy sources into electrical
energy, and have tremendous potential to power wearables electronics and biomedical …

Many efforts are recently devoted on improving thermoelectric SnTe as an environment—
friendly alternative to conventional PbTe and successful approaches include valence band …

Numerous intrinsic Ge vacancies in thermoelectric GeTe not only lead to overhigh carrier
concentration but also seriously deteriorate carrier mobility, which shackles its …

Considering wastage of two-third of the world's energy consumption in the form of waste
heat, the thermoelectric (TE) technology has emerged out as an environmentally friendly …

Considerable efforts have been devoted to enhancing thermoelectric performance, by
employing phonon scattering from nanostructural architecture, and material design using …

Single crystalline SnSe has been reported to exhibit the high thermoelectric zT value of 2.6
at 923 K along the b-axis direction, due to its low thermal conductivity [Zhao, LD; et al …

Entropy engineering is aneffective scheme to reduce the thermal conductivity of
thermoelectric materials, but it inevitably deteriorates the carrier mobility. Here, we report the …

Growing energy crises and pollution are the major issues of the modern world. The
thermoelectric concept seems to be the promising solution to deal with these problems …

This review is focused on state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials (or thermoelements), from
which the thermoelements with the highest figures of merit (z) along with the those having …