Polymer based thermoelectric nanocomposite materials and devices: Fabrication and characteristics

N Nandihalli, CJ Liu, T Mori - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Organic thermoelectric (TE) materials capitalize on advantages such as low thermal
conductivity, low-cost, eco-friendly, versatile processability, light-weight, mechanical …

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 …

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 …

Thermoelectric power factor: Enhancement mechanisms and strategies for higher performance thermoelectric materials

AM Dehkordi, M Zebarjadi, J He, TM Tritt - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric research has witnessed groundbreaking progress over the past 15–20
years. The thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, a measure of the competition between …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress of half-Heusler for moderate temperature thermoelectric applications

S Chen, Z Ren - Materials today, 2013 - Elsevier
Half-Heusler thermoelectric materials have been attracting extensive research interest over
the last two decades. In this mini-review article, we summarize the synthesis methods for …

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 …

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 …

Simultaneous optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties of Bi0. 5Sb1. 5Te3 thermoelectric alloy by twin boundary engineering

Y Yu, DS He, S Zhang, O Cojocaru-Mirédin, T Schwarz… - Nano Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The strong interdependence between the Seebeck coefficient, the electrical and thermal
conductivity makes it difficult to obtain a high thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT. It is of critical …

Half-Heusler thermoelectrics: a complex class of materials

JWG Bos, RA Downie - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Half-Heusler thermoelectrics first attracted interest in the late-1990s and are currently
undergoing a renaissance. This has been driven by improved synthesis, processing and …

Decoupled phononic-electronic transport in multi-phase n-type half-Heusler nanocomposites enabling efficient high temperature power generation

HB Kang, B Poudel, W Li, H Lee, U Saparamadu… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Strongly coupled electronic and thermal transport behavior in thermoelectric (TE) materials
has limited their figure of merit (zT). Here we provide breakthrough in decoupling TE …