Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of
thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy …

In our environment, the large availability of wasted heat has motivated the search for
methods to harvest heat. As a reliable way to supply energy, SiGe has been used for …

As a promising thermoelectric material, higher manganese silicides are composed of earth‐
abundant and eco‐friendly elements, and have attracted extensive attention for future …

The simultaneous realization of low thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric power
factor in materials has long been the goal for the social use of high-performance …

This article presents recent research directions in the study of Earth-abundant, cost-effective,
and low-toxic advanced nanostructured materials for thermoelectric generator (TEG) …

Silicon is the most widely used functional material, as it is geo-abundant and atoxic.
Unfortunately, its efficiency as a thermoelectric material is very poor. In this paper, we …

Using dispersed nanostructures to induce an energy filtering effect is an easy and effective
mechanism to optimize the performance of bulk thermoelectric materials. Compared with …

Improving the power factor (PF) of thermoelectric materials, crucial for enhancing the power
output of thermoelectric generators, is challenging due to the adverse interdependence of …

Commonly, SiGe is considered as a typical thermoelectric material with a favorable
performance in the high temperature region. Here, we report a new strategy through the …