Routes for advancing SnTe thermoelectrics

Z Chen, X Guo, F Zhang, Q Shi, M Tang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional PbTe-based semiconductors have been leading the developments in the
thermoelectrics community due to their rich capabilities in optimizing the electronic and …

[HTML][HTML] High-performance Mg3Sb2-xBix thermoelectrics: progress and perspective

A Li, C Fu, X Zhao, T Zhu - Research, 2020 - spj.science.org
Since the first successful implementation of n-type doping, low-cost Mg 3 Sb 2-x Bi x alloys
have been rapidly developed as excellent thermoelectric materials in recent years. An …

High‐entropy rare earth titanates with low thermal conductivity designed by lattice distortion

S Zhu, J Zhu, S Ye, K Yang, M Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High‐entropy single‐phase rare earth titanates (RE0. 2Gd0. 2Ho0. 2Er0. 2Yb0. 2) 2Ti2O7
(RE= Sm, Y, Lu) were designed and synthesized successfully, in which their lattice distortion …

Grain Boundary Phases in NbFeSb Half‐Heusler Alloys: A New Avenue to Tune Transport Properties of Thermoelectric Materials

R Bueno Villoro, D Zavanelli, C Jung… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many thermoelectric materials benefit from complex microstructures. Grain boundaries (GBs)
in nanocrystalline thermoelectrics cause desirable reduction in the thermal conductivity by …

Thermoelectric performance enhancement in BiSbTe alloy by microstructure modulation via cyclic spark plasma sintering with liquid phase

HL Zhuang, J Pei, B Cai, J Dong, H Hu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The widespread application of thermoelectric (TE) technology demands high‐performance
materials, which has stimulated unceasing efforts devoted to the performance enhancement …

Improved solubility in metavalently bonded solid leads to band alignment, ultralow thermal conductivity, and high thermoelectric performance in SnTe

Y Liu, X Zhang, P Nan, B Zou, Q Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
SnTe is an emerging Pb‐free thermoelectric compound that has drawn significant attention
for clean energy conversion. Chemical doping is routinely used to tailor its charge carrier …

Na doping in PbTe: solubility, band convergence, phase boundary mapping, and thermoelectric properties

P Jood, JP Male, S Anand, Y Matsushita… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Many monumental breakthroughs in p-type PbTe thermoelectrics are driven by optimizing a
Pb0. 98Na0. 02Te matrix. However, recent works found that x> 0.02 in Pb1–x Na x Te further …

Facile and scalable fabrication of highly thermal conductive polyethylene/graphene nanocomposites by combining solid-state shear milling and FDM 3D-printing …

J Jing, Y Chen, S Shi, L Yang, P Lambin - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymer-based thermal conductive composites (PTCs) with both excellent thermal and
mechanical properties are highly desirable in the thermal management of modern …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal transport in defective and disordered materials

R Hanus, R Gurunathan, L Lindsay, MT Agne… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
With significant recent advancements in thermal sciences—such as the development of new
theoretical and experimental techniques, and the discovery of new transport mechanisms—it …

High Thermoelectric Performance of p-Type PbTe Enabled by the Synergy of Resonance Scattering and Lattice Softening

T Parashchuk, B Wiendlocha… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we show the simultaneous enhancement of electrical transport and reduction of
phonon propagation in p-type PbTe codoped with Tl and Na. The effective use of advanced …