Flexible thermoelectric materials and generators: challenges and innovations

Y Wang, L Yang, XL Shi, X Shi, L Chen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The urgent need for ecofriendly, stable, long‐lifetime power sources is driving the booming
market for miniaturized and integrated electronics, including wearable and medical …

Thermoelectric materials and applications for energy harvesting power generation

I Petsagkourakis, K Tybrandt, X Crispin… - … and technology of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectrics, in particular solid-state conversion of heat to electricity, is expected to be a
key energy harvesting technology to power ubiquitous sensors and wearable devices in the …

Energy filtering of charge carriers: current trends, challenges, and prospects for thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, Y Amouyal - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of
thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy …

Energy‐saving pathways for thermoelectric nanomaterial synthesis: hydrothermal/solvothermal, microwave‐assisted, solution‐based, and powder processing

N Nandihalli, DH Gregory, T Mori - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The pillars of Green Chemistry necessitate the development of new chemical
methodologies and processes that can benefit chemical synthesis in terms of energy …

Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals

MV Kovalenko, L Manna, A Cabot, Z Hens… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, ie, crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class
of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and …

Recent development of thermoelectric polymers and composites

H Yao, Z Fan, H Cheng, X Guan… - Macromolecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric materials can be used as the active materials in thermoelectric generators
and as Peltier coolers for direct energy conversion between heat and electricity. Apart from …

Current State‐of‐the‐Art in the Interface/Surface Modification of Thermoelectric Materials

S He, S Lehmann, A Bahrami… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) materials are prominent candidates for energy converting applications
due to their excellent performance and reliability. Extensive efforts for improving their …

Bottom-up engineering of thermoelectric nanomaterials and devices from solution-processed nanoparticle building blocks

S Ortega, M Ibáñez, Y Liu, Y Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The conversion of thermal energy to electricity and vice versa by means of solid state
thermoelectric devices is extremely appealing. However, its cost-effectiveness is seriously …

Towards high-performance polymer-based thermoelectric materials

M He, F Qiu, Z Lin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric materials have garnered considerable attention due to their unique ability to
directly convert heat to electricity and vice versa. Polymers carry many intrinsic advantages …

Thermopower enhancement in conducting polymer nanocomposites via carrier energy scattering at the organic–inorganic semiconductor interface

M He, J Ge, Z Lin, X Feng, X Wang, H Lu… - Energy & …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The energy-filtering effect was successfully employed at the organic–inorganic
semiconductor interface of poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) nanocomposites with the addition …