Polymer based thermoelectric nanocomposite materials and devices: Fabrication and characteristics

N Nandihalli, CJ Liu, T Mori - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Organic thermoelectric (TE) materials capitalize on advantages such as low thermal
conductivity, low-cost, eco-friendly, versatile processability, light-weight, mechanical …

Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

D Beretta, N Neophytou, JM Hodges… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

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 …

Thermoelectric power factor: Enhancement mechanisms and strategies for higher performance thermoelectric materials

AM Dehkordi, M Zebarjadi, J He, TM Tritt - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric research has witnessed groundbreaking progress over the past 15–20
years. The thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, a measure of the competition between …

Roadmap on energy harvesting materials

V Pecunia, SRP Silva, JD Phillips… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and
address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …

Expression of interfacial Seebeck coefficient through grain boundary engineering with multi-layer graphene nanoplatelets

Y Lin, M Wood, K Imasato, JJ Kuo, D Lam… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Energy filtering has been a long-sought strategy to enhance a thermoelectric material's
figure of merit zT through improving its power factor. Here we show a composite of multi …

Towards low cost and sustainable thin film thermoelectric devices based on quaternary chalcogenides

E Isotta, J Andrade‐Arvizu, U Syafiq… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A major challenge in thermoelectrics (TEs) is developing devices made of sustainable,
abundant, and non‐toxic materials. Furthermore, the technological drive toward low sizes …

Review on recent development on thermoelectric functions of PEDOT: PSS based systems

AF Al Naim, AG El-Shamy - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic thermoelectric (TE) materials have captured much curiosity, since the discovery of
their ability to convert a small quantity of heat energy into electrical one. Moreover, intrinsic …

Leveraging bipolar effect to enhance transverse thermoelectricity in semimetal Mg2Pb for cryogenic heat pumping

Z Chen, X Zhang, J Ren, Z Zeng, Y Chen, J He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Toward high-performance thermoelectric energy conversion, the electrons and holes must
work jointly like two wheels of a cart: if not longitudinally, then transversely. The bipolar effect …

Concepts for medium-high to high temperature thermoelectric heat-to-electricity conversion: a review of selected materials and basic considerations of module design

G Schierning, R Chavez, R Schmechel… - Translational …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Within the last decade, novel materials concepts and nanotechnology have resulted in a
great increase of the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. Despite this, a mass …