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 …

Emerging two-dimensional tellurides

S Siddique, CC Gowda, S Demiss, R Tromer, S Paul… - Materials today, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials are at the forefront of current materials research
due to their exciting and unique properties. 2D tellurides are emerging materials which are …

A new class of doped nanobulk high-figure-of-merit thermoelectrics by scalable bottom-up assembly

RJ Mehta, Y Zhang, C Karthik, B Singh, RW Siegel… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
Obtaining thermoelectric materials with high figure of merit ZT is an exacting challenge
because it requires the independent control of electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity …

Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Solution Grown Bi2Te3–xSex Nanoplatelet Composites

A Soni, Z Yanyuan, Y Ligen, MKK Aik… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We report on the enhanced thermoelectric properties of selenium (Se) doped bismuth
telluride (Bi2Te3–x Se x) nanoplatelet (NP) composites synthesized by the polyol method …

Surfactant-free scalable synthesis of Bi2 Te3 and Bi2Se3 nanoflakes and enhanced thermoelectric properties of their nanocomposites.

Y Min, JW Roh, H Yang, M Park, SI Kim… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2012 - europepmc.org
Surfactant-free nanoflakes of n-type Bi2 Te3 and Bi2 Se3 are synthesized in high yields.
Their suspensions are mixed to create nanocomposites with heterostructured nanograins. A …

Interface Driven Energy Filtering of Thermoelectric Power in Spark Plasma Sintered Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 Nanoplatelet Composites

A Soni, Y Shen, M Yin, Y Zhao, L Yu, X Hu, Z Dong… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Control of competing parameters such as thermoelectric (TE) power and electrical and
thermal conductivities is essential for the high performance of thermoelectric materials. Bulk …

BixSb2− xTe3 nanoplates with enhanced thermoelectric performance due to sufficiently decoupled electronic transport properties and strong wide-frequency phonon …

M Hong, ZG Chen, L Yang, J Zou - Nano Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion between heat and electricity, offering
a sustainable technology to overcome the upcoming energy crisis. p-Type Bi x Sb 2− x Te 3 …

Large-scale colloidal synthesis of non-stoichiometric Cu (2) ZnSnSe (4) nanocrystals for thermoelectric applications.

FJ Fan, YX Wang, XJ Liu, L Wu… - … Materials (Deerfield Beach …, 2012 - europepmc.org
Over 10 g of non-stoichiometric Cu (2) ZnSnSe (4) colloidal nanocrystals for thermoelectric
applications are prepared after one single reaction. The obtained pellet made from the …

Study of the Thermoelectric Properties of Bi2Te3/Sb2Te3 Core–Shell Heterojunction Nanostructures

Z Ju, C Crawford, J Adamczyk, ES Toberer… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric materials convert heat energy into electricity, hold promising capabilities for
energy waste harvesting, and may be the future of sustainable energy utilization. In this …

Seebeck and figure of merit enhancement in nanostructured antimony telluride by antisite defect suppression through sulfur doping

RJ Mehta, Y Zhang, H Zhu, DS Parker, M Belley… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Antimony telluride has a low thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT<∼ 0.3) because of a low
Seebeck coefficient α arising from high degenerate hole concentrations generated by …