Thermoelectric materials can be potentially employed in solid-state devices that harvest
waste heat and convert it to electrical power, thereby improving the efficiency of fuel …

Heusler alloys, discovered serendipitously at the beginning of the twentieth century, have
emerged in the twenty-first century as exciting materials for numerous remarkable functional …

Half-Heusler alloys are leading candidate materials for large scale thermoelectric power
generation. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to the …

Entropy-related phase stabilization can allow compositionally complex solid solutions of
multiple principal elements. The massive mixing approach was originally introduced for …

Thermoelectric devices enable the direct conversion of heat flux into electrical energy, which
have attracted considerable research interests for energy harvesting to address the …

The structural, elastic, electronic, and optical properties of half-Heusler CaMgZ (Z= C, Si, Ge,
Sn, Pb) compounds are investigated herein. Density functional theory based on the full …

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

In recent years, the substantially improved performance of thermoelectric (TE) materials has
attracted considerable interest in studying the potential applications of the TE technique …

Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting waste heat into electricity. The
dimensionless figure-of-merit (ZT), as the critical measure for the material's thermoelectric …

Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and
address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …