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 …

[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 …

Recent advances in thermoelectric nanocomposites

W Liu, X Yan, G Chen, Z Ren - Nano Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric power generation represents a class of energy conversion technology, which
has been used in power supply of aeronautic and astronautic exploring missions, now …

[HTML][HTML] Low-cost, abundant binary sulfides as promising thermoelectric materials

ZH Ge, LD Zhao, D Wu, X Liu, BP Zhang, JF Li, J He - Materials Today, 2016 - Elsevier
In the past several years, metal sulfides have been the subject of extensive research as
promising thermoelectric materials with high potential in future commercial applications due …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in nanostructured thermoelectric half-Heusler compounds

W Xie, A Weidenkaff, X Tang, Q Zhang, J Poon, TM Tritt - Nanomaterials, 2012 - mdpi.com
Half-Heusler (HH) alloys have attracted considerable interest as promising thermoelectric
(TE) materials in the temperature range around 700 K and above, which is close to the …

Recent progress in half-Heusler thermoelectric materials

L Huang, Q Zhang, B Yuan, X Lai, X Yan… - Materials Research Bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Half-Heusler (HH) thermoelectric (TE) materials have been attracting extensive
research interest over the last two decades, owing to their thermal stability, mechanical …

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 …

Promising materials for thermoelectric applications

B Cai, H Hu, HL Zhuang, JF Li - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials can directly convert heat to electricity and vice versa. ZT (= S 2 σ
T/κ) is usually used for evaluating the performance of thermoelectric materials. Improving ZT …

Physics and technology of thermoelectric materials and devices

A Dadhich, M Saminathan, K Kumari… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The continuous depletion of fossil fuels and the increasing demand for eco-friendly and
sustainable energy sources have prompted researchers to look for alternative energy …

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 …