Advances in the design and assembly of flexible thermoelectric device

T Cao, XL Shi, ZG Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to their capabilities of solid-state conversion between heat and electricity, zero-
emission, and high flexibility, flexible thermoelectric devices (F-TEDs) have exhibited great …

High-performance thermoelectrics and challenges for practical devices

Q Yan, MG Kanatzidis - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Lattice plainification advances highly effective SnSe crystalline thermoelectrics

D Liu, D Wang, T Hong, Z Wang, Y Wang, Y Qin, L Su… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology has been widely used for key areas, including waste-heat
recovery and solid-state cooling. We discovered tin selenide (SnSe) crystals with potential …

High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling

L Su, D Wang, S Wang, B Qin, Y Wang, Y Qin, Y Jin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials allow for direct conversion between heat and electricity, offering
the potential for power generation. The average dimensionless figure of merit ZT ave …

Polycrystalline SnSe with a thermoelectric figure of merit greater than the single crystal

C Zhou, YK Lee, Y Yu, S Byun, ZZ Luo, H Lee, B Ge… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Thermoelectric materials generate electric energy from waste heat, with conversion
efficiency governed by the dimensionless figure of merit, ZT. Single-crystal tin selenide …

Power generation and thermoelectric cooling enabled by momentum and energy multiband alignments

B Qin, D Wang, X Liu, Y Qin, JF Dong, J Luo, JW Li… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials transfer heat and electrical energy, hence they are useful for power
generation or cooling applications. Many of these materials have narrow bandgaps …

High-entropy-stabilized chalcogenides with high thermoelectric performance

B Jiang, Y Yu, J Cui, X Liu, L Xie, J Liao, Q Zhang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology generates electricity from waste heat, but one bottleneck for
wider use is the performance of thermoelectric materials. Manipulating the configurational …

Thermoelectric Generators: A comprehensive review of characteristics and applications

F Tohidi, SG Holagh, A Chitsaz - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy crisis and associated environmental issues are the main challenges in today's
changing world, where there is a growing demand for electricity. To address such …

Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2

S Roychowdhury, T Ghosh, R Arora, M Samanta, L Xie… - Science, 2021 - science.org
High thermoelectric performance is generally achieved through either electronic structure
modulations or phonon scattering enhancements, which often counteract each other. A leap …

Advances in versatile GeTe thermoelectrics from materials to devices

M Hong, M Li, Y Wang, X Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the intensive efforts in the development of high‐performance GeTe
thermoelectrics for mass‐market application in power generation and refrigeration, GeTe …