Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

High‐performance thermoelectric SnSe: aqueous synthesis, innovations, and challenges

XL Shi, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally
friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding …

Recent advances in SnSe nanostructures beyond thermoelectricity

F Li, H Wang, R Huang, W Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Layered SnSe is an emerging class of black phosphorus, which is non‐toxic, eco‐friendly,
and chemically stable. Recently, SnSe nanostructures have triggered more research interest …

High Selectivity Gas Sensing and Charge Transfer of SnSe2

OL Camargo Moreira, WY Cheng, HR Fuh… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
SnSe2 is an anisotropic binary-layered material with rich physics, which could see it used for
a variety of potential applications. Here, we investigate the gas-sensing properties of SnSe2 …

3D printed SnSe thermoelectric generators with high figure of merit

MR Burton, S Mehraban, D Beynon… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of the record figure of merit (ZT) of 2.6±0.3 in tin selenide (SnSe), the
material has attracted much attention in the field of thermoelectrics. This paper reports a …

Strategies to enhance the performance of thermoelectric materials: a review

A Bugalia, V Gupta, N Thakur - Journal of Renewable and Sustainable …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Various techniques to enhance the performance of thermoelectric materials have been
reviewed in an unified way. The influence of synthesis techniques, post-synthesis treatment …

High thermoelectric performance of new two-dimensional IV–VI compounds: A first-principles study

XL Zhu, CH Hou, P Zhang, PF Liu, G Xie… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Based on first-principles calculations, we explore the electronic and phonon transport
properties of a new-type two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal material XSe (X= Ge, Sn, and Pb) …

Investigation of the mechanical and transport properties of InGeX 3 (X= S, Se and Te) monolayers using density functional theory and machine learning

YB Shi, YY Chen, H Wang, S Cao, YX Zhu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, novel 2D InGeTe3 has been successfully synthesized and attracted attention due
to its excellent properties. In this study, we investigated the mechanical properties and …

Enhanced thermoelectric properties of SnSe thin films grown by single-target magnetron sputtering

L Song, J Zhang, BB Iversen - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Using single-target magnetron sputtering, SnSe thin films were grown on fused silica
substrates at room temperature and directly crystallized into the Pnma phase without …

Surprisingly high in-plane thermoelectric performance in a-axis-oriented epitaxial SnSe thin films

S Hou, Z Li, Y Xue, X Ning, J Wang, S Wang - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
SnSe has recently drawn extensive attention as a promising thermoelectric (TE) material
since the discovery of record high figure of merit (zT,∼ 2.6) in the monocrystalline bulk …