Bulk nanostructuring has been one of the leading strategies employed in the past decade for
the optimization of thermoelectric properties by introducing strong grain boundary scattering …

Thermoelectrics is attractive as a green and sustainable way for harnessing waste heat and
cooling applications. Designing high performance thermoelectrics involves navigating the …

Motivated by the synthesized Cu 4 Ti Se 4 with ultralow room-temperature thermal
conductivity [Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 60, 9106 (2021)], we systematically investigate its …

Half-Heusler alloys are leading candidate materials for large scale thermoelectric power
generation. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to the …

BACKGROUND Heat and electricity are two forms of energy that are at opposite ends of a
spectrum. Heat is ubiquitous, but with low quality, whereas electricity is versatile, but its …

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 …

The past two decades have witnessed the rapid growth of thermoelectric (TE) research.
Novel concepts and paradigms are described here that have emerged, targeting superior TE …

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

Aliovalent doping is a way to optimize the electrical properties of semiconductors, but its
impact on the phonon structure and propagation is seldom considered properly. Here we …

Solid-state thermoelectric technology offers a promising solution for converting waste heat to
useful electrical power. Both high operating temperature and high figure of merit zT are …