Chalcogenide thermoelectrics empowered by an unconventional bonding mechanism

Y Yu, M Cagnoni, O Cojocaru‐Mirédin… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric materials have attracted significant research interest in recent decades due
to their promising application potential in interconverting heat and electricity. Unfortunately …

Thermoelectric GeTe with diverse degrees of freedom having secured superhigh performance

M Hong, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the ability to harvest waste heat into reusable electricity and the exclusive role of
serving as the power generator for deep spacecraft, intensive endeavors are dedicated to …

[HTML][HTML] Charge and phonon transport in PbTe-based thermoelectric materials

Y Xiao, LD Zhao - npj Quantum Materials, 2018 - nature.com
PbTe is a typical intermediate-temperature thermoelectric material, which has undergone
extensive developments and achieved excellent high thermoelectric performance. In this …

Current progress and future challenges in thermoelectric power generation: From materials to devices

W Liu, Q Jie, HS Kim, Z Ren - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric power generation (TEG) represents one of the cleanest methods of energy
conversion available today. It can be used in applications ranging from the harvesting of …

Strong Phonon–Phonon Interactions Securing Extraordinary Thermoelectric Ge1–xSbxTe with Zn-Alloying-Induced Band Alignment

M Hong, Y Wang, T Feng, Q Sun, S Xu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The ability of substitution atoms to decrease thermal conductivity is usually ascribed to the
enhanced phonon-impurity scattering by assuming the original phonon dispersion relations …

PbS nanostructures: A review of recent advances

Z Mamiyev, NO Balayeva - Materials Today Sustainability, 2023 - Elsevier
The primary motivation behind efforts to understand the properties of lead sulfide (PbS) is its
technological importance as the foundation of modern semiconductor optoelectronics. PbS …

[HTML][HTML] Broad temperature plateau for thermoelectric figure of merit ZT>2 in phase-separated PbTe0.7S0.3

HJ Wu, LD Zhao, FS Zheng, D Wu, YL Pei… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Thermoelectrics interconvert heat to electricity and are of great interest in waste heat
recovery, solid-state cooling and so on. The efficiency of thermoelectric materials depends …

Remarkable Roles of Cu To Synergistically Optimize Phonon and Carrier Transport in n-Type PbTe-Cu2Te

Y Xiao, H Wu, W Li, M Yin, Y Pei, Y Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
High thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe is urgently needed to match its p-type
counterpart. Here, we show a peak ZT∼ 1.5 at 723 K and a record high average ZT> 1.0 at …

[HTML][HTML] High performance bulk thermoelectrics via a panoscopic approach

J He, MG Kanatzidis, VP Dravid - Materials Today, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the intellectual challenges for next generation thermoelectric materials revolves
around the synthesis and fabrication of hierarchically organized microstructures that do not …

Realizing high thermoelectric performance in p-type SnSe through crystal structure modification

B Qin, D Wang, W He, Y Zhang, H Wu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The simple binary compound SnSe has been reported as a robust thermoelectric material
for energy conversion by showing strong anharmonicity and multiple electronic valence …