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 …
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 …
Thermoelectric research has witnessed groundbreaking progress over the past 15–20 years. The thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, a measure of the competition between …
Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …
Energy filtering has been a long-sought strategy to enhance a thermoelectric material's figure of merit zT through improving its power factor. Here we show a composite of multi …
A major challenge in thermoelectrics (TEs) is developing devices made of sustainable, abundant, and non‐toxic materials. Furthermore, the technological drive toward low sizes …
AF Al Naim, AG El-Shamy - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic thermoelectric (TE) materials have captured much curiosity, since the discovery of their ability to convert a small quantity of heat energy into electrical one. Moreover, intrinsic …
Z Chen, X Zhang, J Ren, Z Zeng, Y Chen, J He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Toward high-performance thermoelectric energy conversion, the electrons and holes must work jointly like two wheels of a cart: if not longitudinally, then transversely. The bipolar effect …
Within the last decade, novel materials concepts and nanotechnology have resulted in a great increase of the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. Despite this, a mass …