Revisiting anodic alumina templates: From fabrication to applications

A Ruiz-Clavijo, O Caballero-Calero, M Martín-González - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Anodic porous alumina,–AAO–(also known as nanoporous alumina, nanohole alumina
arrays,–NAA–or nanoporous anodized alumina platforms,–NAAP–) has opened new …

Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

D Beretta, N Neophytou, JM Hodges… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

Energy‐saving pathways for thermoelectric nanomaterial synthesis: hydrothermal/solvothermal, microwave‐assisted, solution‐based, and powder processing

N Nandihalli, DH Gregory, T Mori - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The pillars of Green Chemistry necessitate the development of new chemical
methodologies and processes that can benefit chemical synthesis in terms of energy …

Environmentally friendly thermoelectric materials: High performance from inorganic components with low toxicity and abundance in the earth

O Caballero‐Calero, JR Ares… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review article gives an overview of the recent research directions in eco‐friendly, non‐
toxic, and earth‐abundant thermoelectric materials. It covers materials such as sulfides …

Roadmap on energy harvesting materials

V Pecunia, SRP Silva, JD Phillips… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and
address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …

A review on principles and applications of scanning thermal microscopy (SThM)

Y Zhang, W Zhu, F Hui, M Lanza… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As the size of materials, particles, and devices shrinks to nanometer, atomic, or even
quantum scale, it is more challenging to characterize their thermal properties reliably …

High temperature Si–Ge alloy towards thermoelectric applications: A comprehensive review

R Basu, A Singh - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Silicon–Germanium is an excellent and well-proven alloy with wide application in the
transistor technology and space industries because of its meritorious features such as easy …

High Thermoelectric zT in n‐Type Silver Selenide films at Room Temperature

JA Perez‐Taborda, O Caballero‐Calero… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a zT value as high as 1.2 at room temperature for n‐type Ag2Se films is reported
grown by pulsed hybrid reactive magnetron sputtering (PHRMS). PHRMS is a novel …

Emerging theory, materials, and screening methods: new opportunities for promoting thermoelectric performance

Y Ouyang, Z Zhang, D Li, J Chen… - Annalen der …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance thermoelectric materials have attracted immense interest due to the
capability of directly converting thermal energy into electrical energy. The correlation and …

Metal-induced layer exchange of group IV materials

K Toko, T Suemasu - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Layer exchange (LE) is an interesting phenomenon in which metal and semiconductor
layers exchange during heat treatment. A great deal of effort has been put into research on …