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 …

High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

3D charge and 2D phonon transports leading to high out-of-plane ZT in n-type SnSe crystals

C Chang, M Wu, D He, Y Pei, CF Wu, X Wu, H Yu… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology enables the harvest of waste heat and its direct conversion into
electricity. The conversion efficiency is determined by the materials figure of merit ZT. Here …

SrTiO3-based thermoelectrics: Progress and challenges

XL Shi, H Wu, Q Liu, W Zhou, S Lu, Z Shao… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermoelectrics, enabling the direct energy conversion between electricity and heat, provide
alternatives for conventional power generation and refrigeration with considerable …

High‐performance thermoelectric SnSe: aqueous synthesis, innovations, and challenges

XL Shi, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally
friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding …

Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance

Y Liu, M Calcabrini, Y Yu, S Lee, C Chang, J David… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
SnSe has emerged as one of the most promising materials for thermoelectric energy
conversion due to its extraordinary performance in its single-crystal form and its low-cost …

Lattice strain leads to high thermoelectric performance in polycrystalline SnSe

X Lou, S Li, X Chen, Q Zhang, H Deng, J Zhang, D Li… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polycrystalline SnSe materials with ZT values comparable to those of SnSe crystals are
greatly desired due to facile processing, machinability, and scale-up application. Here …

A review of thermoelectric generators for waste heat recovery in marine applications

M Saha, O Tregenza, J Twelftree, C Hulston - … Energy Technologies and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the surging cost of fuel and stringent international regulations on greenhouse gas
emissions, marine industries are focussing on discovering alternative power sources to …

Rational structural design and manipulation advance SnSe thermoelectrics

XL Shi, WY Chen, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectrics can directly harvest electricity from waste heat through the Seebeck effect;
therefore, their use has been regarded as an eco-friendly and sustainable solution to …

The influence of surface functionalization on thermal transport and thermoelectric properties of MXene monolayers

S Sarikurt, D Çakır, M Keçeli, C Sevik - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The newest members of a two-dimensional material family, involving transition metal
carbides and nitrides (called MXenes), have garnered increasing attention due to their …