The current problems of decreasing fossil fuel reserves and the increasing pollution level due to burning of these fossil fuels are expected to worsen in the future with ever increasing …
Metavalent bonding has attracted immense interest owing to its capacity to impart a distinct property portfolio to materials for advanced functionality. Coupling metavalent bonding to …
Kagome magnets possess several novel nontrivial topological features owing to the strong correlation between topology and magnetism that extends to their applications in the field of …
Intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity (κlat) while maintaining the high carrier mobility (μ) is of the utmost importance for thermoelectrics. Topological insulators (TI) can possess …
A challenge in thermoelectrics is to achieve intrinsically low thermal conductivity in crystalline solids while maintaining a high carrier mobility (μ). Topological quantum …
Recently, there has been a lot of interest in topological insulators (TIs), being electronic materials, which are insulating in their bulk but with the gapless exotic metallic state on their …
The electronic, magnetic, optical and thermoelectric properties of delafossites XMnO 2 (X= Au, Ag, Cu) have been calculated by DFT approach. The monoclinic phase of crystal …
M Samanta, K Biswas - Chemistry of Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topological quantum materials with layered heterostructure hold great promise for exhibiting low thermal conductivity. Homologous (Bi2) m (Bi2Se3) n (m, n: integers) series hosts …
Topological insulators (TIs) and thermoelectric (TE) materials seem to belong to distinct physical realms; however, in practice, they both share common characteristics. Introducing …