Rationally designing high-performance bulk thermoelectric materials

G Tan, LD Zhao, MG Kanatzidis - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
There has been a renaissance of interest in exploring highly efficient thermoelectric
materials as a possible route to address the worldwide energy generation, utilization, and …

Eco‐friendly SnTe thermoelectric materials: progress and future challenges

R Moshwan, L Yang, J Zou… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As a key type of emerging thermoelectric material, tin telluride (SnTe) has received
extensive attention because of its low toxicity and eco‐friendly nature. The recent trend …

Retarding Ostwald ripening through Gibbs adsorption and interfacial complexions leads to high-performance SnTe thermoelectrics

D An, J Wang, J Zhang, X Zhai, Z Kang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoprecipitation is a routine method to decrease the thermal conductivity for advancing
thermoelectric performance. However, the coarsening/Ostwald ripening of precipitates under …

Strategies to improve the thermoelectric figure of merit in thermoelectric functional materials

Y Sun, Y Liu, R Li, Y Li, S Bai - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, thermoelectric functional materials have been widely concerned in
temperature difference power generation, electric refrigeration and integrated circui, and so …

Decorated dislocations lead to dynamically optimized thermoelectric performance in N-type PbTe

ZY Huang, F Wang, C Jung, S Zhang, F Zu… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
A high thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency requires a large power factor and a low
thermal conductivity over a broad temperature range. Optimizing the temperature-dependent …

Thermodynamic routes to ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance

PC Wei, CN Liao, HJ Wu, D Yang, J He… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) research is not only a course of materials by discovery but also a
seedbed of novel concepts and methodologies. Herein, the focus is on recent advances in …

Alloying to increase the band gap for improving thermoelectric properties of Ag 2 Te

Y Pei, NA Heinz, GJ Snyder - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Ag2Te simultaneously shows high mobility and low thermal conductivity, however the
relatively low band gap of∼ 0.2 eV prevents it from achieving high thermoelectric figure of …

Dynamic doping and Cottrell atmosphere optimize the thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe over a broad temperature interval

Y Yu, C Zhou, X Zhang, L Abdellaoui, C Doberstein… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
High thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency requires a large figure-of-merit, zT, over a
broad temperature range. To achieve this, we optimize the carrier concentrations of n-type …

Enhanced thermoelectric properties of p-type nanostructured PbTe–MTe (M= Cd, Hg) materials

K Ahn, K Biswas, J He, I Chung, V Dravid… - Energy & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigated the effect of Cd and Hg substitution on the thermoelectric properties of p-
type PbTe–x% CdTe and PbTe–x% HgTe (1≤ x≤ 5) doped with Na2Te. Both ingot samples …

Regulating Te Vacancies through Dopant Balancing via Excess Ag Enables Rebounding Power Factor and High Thermoelectric Performance in p‐Type PbTe

H Jang, JH Park, HS Lee, B Ryu, SD Park… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric properties are frequently manipulated by introducing point defects into a
matrix. However, these properties often change in unfavorable directions owing to the …