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 …

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

Thermoelectric (TE) materials have the capability of converting heat into electricity, which
can improve fuel efficiency, as well as providing robust alternative energy supply in multiple …

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 (TE) materials facilitate direct heat-to-electricity conversion. The performance
of a TE material is characterised by its figure of merit zT (= S 2 σT/κ) that depends on both …

During the last two decades, we have witnessed great progress in research on
thermoelectrics. There are two primary focuses. One is the fundamental understanding of …

A high thermoelectric power factor not only enables a potentially high figure of merit ZT but
also leads to a large output power density, and hence it is pivotal to find an effective route to …

With about two-thirds of all used energy being lost as waste heat, there is a compelling need
for high-performance thermoelectric materials that can directly and reversibly convert heat to …

Grain boundary scattering was long recognized and widely utilized to regulate the transports
of charge carriers and phonons in thermoelectric materials; nevertheless, the understanding …

Thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive interest in the last two decades due to
their potential applications in waste-heat recovery from industrial processes, automobiles …