Heat transport has various applications in solid materials. In particular, the thermoelectric
technology provides an alternative approach to traditional methods for waste heat recovery …

According to statistics, low-temperature waste heat below 300° C accounts for more than
89% of industrial waste heat. If the waste heat is not recycled, a large amount of low …

Nanoprecipitation is a routine method to decrease the thermal conductivity for advancing
thermoelectric performance. However, the coarsening/Ostwald ripening of precipitates under …

The binary compound of GeTe emerging as a potential medium-temperature thermoelectric
material has drawn a great deal of attention. Here, we achieve ultralow lattice thermal …

Most of the best known SnTe‐based materials exhibit an attractive thermoelectric figure of
merit (zT) only at the high‐temperature regime, but their performance at the low‐mid …

Silver selenide, Ag2Se, is a promising low-temperature thermoelectric material which can be
used to harvest the low-quality waste heat for electrical power generation or cool the …

Synergetic optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties is achieved for SnTe‐
based nano‐crystalline materials. Gd doping is able to suppress the Sn vacancy, which is …

Most inorganic thermoelectric semiconductors are intrinsically brittle, restricting the
application of thermoelectric materials. Therefore, developing ductile thermoelectric …

The key to enhancing the thermoelectric performance of SnTe is to engineer its electronic
structure by doping. It is essential that the beneficial features are exhibited at the Fermi level …

The strong correlation between Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity is a main
bottleneck in enhancing the performance of thermoelectric materials. It indicates that optimal …