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 …

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 …

The high-entropy concept provides extended, optimized space of a composition, resulting in
unusual transport phenomena and excellent thermoelectric performance. By tuning electron …

Thermoelectric materials generate electric energy from waste heat, with conversion
efficiency governed by the dimensionless figure of merit, ZT. Single-crystal tin selenide …

Thermoelectric technology generates electricity from waste heat, but one bottleneck for
wider use is the performance of thermoelectric materials. Manipulating the configurational …

The development of electronics is increasingly dependent on low-cost, flexible, solution-
processed semiconductors. Colloidal quantum dots are solution-processed semiconducting …

Thermoelectric materials and their devices can realize the solid-state energy conversion
between thermal and electrical energy, therefore serving as a promising alternative to …

Elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as promising candidates for
energy and catalysis applications due to their unique physical, chemical, and electronic …

Thermoelectric energy conversion is an all solid-state technology that relies on exceptional
semiconductor materials that are generally optimized through sophisticated strategies …

High thermoelectric performance is generally achieved through either electronic structure
modulations or phonon scattering enhancements, which often counteract each other. A leap …