High performance thermoelectric materials: progress and their applications

L Yang, ZG Chen, MS Dargusch… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) materials have the capability of converting heat into electricity, which
can improve fuel efficiency, as well as providing robust alternative energy supply in multiple …

Rationally designing high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

G Tan, LD Zhao, MG Kanatzidis - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
There has been a renaissance of interest in exploring highly efficient thermoelectric
materials as a possible route to address the worldwide energy generation, utilization, and …

Entropy engineering promotes thermoelectric performance in p-type chalcogenides

B Jiang, Y Yu, H Chen, J Cui, X Liu, L Xie… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
We demonstrate that the thermoelectric properties of p-type chalcogenides can be effectively
improved by band convergence and hierarchical structure based on a high-entropy …

Recent advances in thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, KK Kar - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials are crucial in renewable energy conversion technologies to solve
the global energy crisis. They have been proven to be suitable for high-end technological …

Thinking like a chemist: intuition in thermoelectric materials

WG Zeier, A Zevalkink, ZM Gibbs… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The coupled transport properties required to create an efficient thermoelectric material
necessitates a thorough understanding of the relationship between the chemistry and …

[HTML][HTML] Thermoelectric materials: Energy conversion between heat and electricity

X Zhang, LD Zhao - Journal of Materiomics, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials have drawn vast attentions for centuries, because thermoelectric
effects enable direct conversion between thermal and electrical energy, thus providing an …

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 …

Eco‐friendly SnTe thermoelectric materials: progress and future challenges

R Moshwan, L Yang, J Zou… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As a key type of emerging thermoelectric material, tin telluride (SnTe) has received
extensive attention because of its low toxicity and eco‐friendly nature. The recent trend …

A review of CoSb3-based skutterudite thermoelectric materials

ZY Liu, JL Zhu, X Tong, S Niu, WY Zhao - Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2020 - Springer
The binary skutterudite CoSb 3 is a narrow bandgap semiconductor thermoelectric (TE)
material with a relatively flat band structure and excellent electrical performance. However …

The panoscopic approach to high performance thermoelectrics

LD Zhao, VP Dravid, MG Kanatzidis - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This review discusses recent developments and current research in high performance bulk
thermoelectric materials, comprising nanostructuring, mesostructuring, band alignment …