Quantum chemical bonding descriptors have recently been utilized to design materials with
tailored properties. Their usage to facilitate a quantitative description of bonding in …

Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

The energy vs crystal momentum E (k) diagram for a solid (band structure) constitutes the
road map for navigating its optical, magnetic, and transport properties. By selecting crystals …

Thermoelectric materials have attracted significant research interest in recent decades due
to their promising application potential in interconverting heat and electricity. Unfortunately …

Driven by the ability to harvest waste heat into reusable electricity and the exclusive role of
serving as the power generator for deep spacecraft, intensive endeavors are dedicated to …

Spintronics, a technology harnessing electron spin for information transmission, offers a
promising avenue to surpass the limitations of conventional electronic devices. While the …

The development of spintronic devices has been limited by the poor compatibility between
semiconductors and ferromagnetic sources of spin. The broken inversion symmetry of some …

Phase change materials are materials that exist in at least two structurally distinct solid
phases, an amorphous and one (or more) crystalline phases. Many materials display phase …

Phase‐change materials can rapidly and reversibly be switched between an amorphous
and a crystalline phase. Since both phases are characterized by very different optical and …

Phase-change materials are characterized by a unique property portfolio well suited for data
storage applications. Here, a first treasure map for phase-change materials is presented on …