Energy filtering of charge carriers: current trends, challenges, and prospects for thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, Y Amouyal - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of
thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy …

Compound copper chalcogenide nanocrystals

C Coughlan, M Ibanez, O Dobrozhan, A Singh… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review captures the synthesis, assembly, properties, and applications of copper
chalcogenide NCs, which have achieved significant research interest in the last decade due …

Degradability and clearance of inorganic nanoparticles for biomedical applications

G Yang, SZF Phua, AK Bindra, Y Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Inorganic nanoparticles with tunable and diverse properties hold tremendous potential in the
field of nanomedicine, while having non‐negligible toxicity concerns in healthy …

Nanointerface chemistry: lattice-mismatch-directed synthesis and application of hybrid nanocrystals

J Liu, J Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the past decades, great strides have been made in the synthesis of hybrid nanocrystals
(HNCs) consisting of two or more disparate subunits (such as metals and/or …

Charge transport in strongly coupled quantum dot solids

CR Kagan, CB Murray - Nature nanotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
The emergence of high-mobility, colloidal semiconductor quantum dot (QD) solids has
triggered fundamental studies that map the evolution from carrier hopping through localized …

Challenges and opportunities in low-dimensional thermoelectric nanomaterials

J Dong, A Suwardi, XY Tan, N Jia, K Saglik, R Ji… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials can convert heat into electrical energy, which can potentially be
used to improve the fuel efficiency of conventional heat engines. In recent decades …

Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals

MV Kovalenko, L Manna, A Cabot, Z Hens… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, ie, crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class
of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and …

Colloidal quantum dot ligand engineering for high performance solar cells

R Wang, Y Shang, P Kanjanaboos, W Zhou… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are fast-improving materials for next-generation solution-
processed optoelectronic devices such as solar cells, photocatalysis, light emitting diodes …

Current State‐of‐the‐Art in the Interface/Surface Modification of Thermoelectric Materials

S He, S Lehmann, A Bahrami… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) materials are prominent candidates for energy converting applications
due to their excellent performance and reliability. Extensive efforts for improving their …

[HTML][HTML] Low-cost, abundant binary sulfides as promising thermoelectric materials

ZH Ge, LD Zhao, D Wu, X Liu, BP Zhang, JF Li, J He - Materials Today, 2016 - Elsevier
In the past several years, metal sulfides have been the subject of extensive research as
promising thermoelectric materials with high potential in future commercial applications due …