With the increasing demand for energy and the climate challenges caused by the
consumption of traditional fuels, there is an urgent need to accelerate the adoption of green …

Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

Microthermoelectric modules can be used as energy harvesters, active coolers and thermal
sensors in integrated systems. However, manufacturing such modules with traditional …

The coupling nature of thermoelectric properties determines that optimizing the Fermi level
is the priority to achieve a net increase in thermoelectric performance. Conventionally, the …

Magnesium-based materials have been regarded as promising candidates for large-scale,
high-efficiency thermoelectric applications, owing to their excellent dimensionless figure of …

Nanoporous materials possess low thermal conductivities derived from effective phonon
scatterings at grain boundaries and interfaces. Thus nanoporous thermoelectric materials …

Spark plasma sintering (SPS), a sintering method that uses the action of pulsed direct
current and pressure, has received a lot of attention due to its capability of exerting control …