Carrier grain boundary scattering in thermoelectric materials

C Hu, K Xia, C Fu, X Zhao, T Zhu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Wearable thermoelectric materials and devices for self‐powered electronic systems

Y Jia, Q Jiang, H Sun, P Liu, D Hu, Y Pei… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things has led to a growing
demand for wearable and maintenance‐free power sources. The continual push toward …

Lattice plainification advances highly effective SnSe crystalline thermoelectrics

D Liu, D Wang, T Hong, Z Wang, Y Wang, Y Qin, L Su… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology has been widely used for key areas, including waste-heat
recovery and solid-state cooling. We discovered tin selenide (SnSe) crystals with potential …

Staggered-layer-boosted flexible Bi2Te3 films with high thermoelectric performance

Y Lu, Y Zhou, W Wang, M Hu, X Huang, D Mao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Room-temperature bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) thermoelectrics are promising candidates for
low-grade heat harvesting. However, the brittleness and inflexibility of Bi2Te3 are far …

Maximizing the performance of n-type Mg3Bi2 based materials for room-temperature power generation and thermoelectric cooling

Z Liu, W Gao, H Oshima, K Nagase, CH Lee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the thermoelectric effect was discovered around 200 years ago, the main
application in practice is thermoelectric cooling using the traditional Bi2Te3. The related …

Advances in Ag 2 Se-based thermoelectrics from materials to applications

H Wu, X Shi, J Duan, Q Liu, ZG Chen - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric materials and their devices can realize the solid-state energy conversion
between thermal and electrical energy, therefore serving as a promising alternative to …

Unconventional thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting and sensing applications

M Massetti, F Jiao, AJ Ferguson, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Heat is an abundant but often wasted source of energy. Thus, harvesting just a portion of this
tremendous amount of energy holds significant promise for a more sustainable society …

Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

Defect engineering in thermoelectric materials: what have we learned?

Y Zheng, TJ Slade, L Hu, XY Tan, Y Luo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric energy conversion is an all solid-state technology that relies on exceptional
semiconductor materials that are generally optimized through sophisticated strategies …

Advances in versatile GeTe thermoelectrics from materials to devices

M Hong, M Li, Y Wang, X Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the intensive efforts in the development of high‐performance GeTe
thermoelectrics for mass‐market application in power generation and refrigeration, GeTe …