Half-Heusler thermoelectrics: Advances from materials fundamental to device engineering

W Li, S Ghosh, N Liu, B Poudel - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
The potential widespread adoption of thermoelectric (TE) technology in energy harvesting
applications hinges upon the high-performance, reliable, and cost-effective module …

3D printed energy devices: generation, conversion, and storage

J Son, H Kim, Y Choi, H Lee - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2024 - nature.com
The energy devices for generation, conversion, and storage of electricity are widely used
across diverse aspects of human life and various industry. Three-dimensional (3D) printing …

Unprecedented strength enhancement observed in interpenetrating phase composites of aperiodic lattice metamaterials

X Wang, Z Li, J Deng, T Gao, K Zeng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous high strength and high toughness are highly sought‐after in lattice
metamaterials, but these properties are typically mutually exclusive. To overcome this …

Sustainable heat harvesting via thermal nonlinearity

Y Zhou, T Ding, G Xu, S Yang, CW Qiu, J He… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Converting the pervasive low-grade environmental waste heat of approximately 200 EJ
globally per year (equivalent to 27 Gt of CO2 emission) into electricity promises energy …

Energy-absorbing porous materials: Bioinspired architecture and fabrication

J Zhao, M Li, J Chen, W Gao, H Bai - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Energy-absorbing materials are widely used in transportations, sports, and the military
applications. Particularly, porous materials, including natural and artificial materials, have …

Automobile exhaust flexible thermoelectric harvester enabled by liquid metal-based heatsink

C Liu, Q Wang, Y Wang, Z Wang, X Han, Q Zhou… - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The softening thermoelectric generator based on a deformable heatsink is expected to
facilitate achieving remarkable temperature differences and thermal harvesting capabilities …

Thermoelectric Materials and Devices for Advanced Biomedical Applications

S Jia, H Ma, S Gao, L Yang, Q Sun - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectrics (TEs), enabling the direct conversion between heat and electrical energy,
have demonstrated extensive application potential in biomedical fields. Herein, the …

Research advances on a powering approach aimed toward electric nodes around the body region

Y Guo, S Zhang, C Wu, Z Gong, Z Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Wearable implantable electronic devices (WIEDs) play an important role in data interaction
and information collection, which provides new ideas for the development of consumer …

Thermoelectric nanowires for dense 3D printed architectures

D Zhang, J Ramiah, M Cagirici, K Saglik… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The large-scale employment of 3D printed inorganic thermoelectrics is primarily constrained
because of their lower efficiencies as compared to those fabricated from conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and challenges in inorganic bulk-based flexible thermoelectric devices

QY Liu, XL Shi, TY Cao, WY Chen, L Li… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of flexible thermoelectric devices (F-TEDs) has significantly improved their
thermoelectric performance and unique flexibility, with increasing efforts directed toward …