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 …

Advances in Ag 2 Se-based thermoelectrics from materials to applications

H Wu, X Shi, J Duan, Q Liu, ZG Chen - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric materials and their devices can realize the solid-state energy conversion
between thermal and electrical energy, therefore serving as a promising alternative to …

High figure-of-merit and power generation in high-entropy GeTe-based thermoelectrics

B Jiang, W Wang, S Liu, Y Wang, C Wang, Y Chen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The high-entropy concept provides extended, optimized space of a composition, resulting in
unusual transport phenomena and excellent thermoelectric performance. By tuning electron …

Flexible thermoelectrics based on ductile semiconductors

Q Yang, S Yang, P Qiu, L Peng, TR Wei, Z Zhang, X Shi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Flexible thermoelectrics provide a different solution for developing portable and sustainable
flexible power supplies. The discovery of silver sulfide–based ductile semiconductors has …

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 …

Advances in ionic thermoelectrics: from materials to devices

S Sun, M Li, XL Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As an extended member of the thermoelectric family, ionic thermoelectrics (i‐TEs) exhibit
exceptional Seebeck coefficients and applicable power factors, and as a result have …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of defect structures leading to high ZT in GeTe-based thermoelectric materials

Y Jiang, J Dong, HL Zhuang, J Yu, B Su, H Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
GeTe is a promising mid-temperature thermoelectric compound but inevitably contains
excessive Ge vacancies hindering its performance maximization. This work reveals that …

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 …

Defect engineering in thermoelectric materials: what have we learned?

Y Zheng, TJ Slade, L Hu, XY Tan, Y Luo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric energy conversion is an all solid-state technology that relies on exceptional
semiconductor materials that are generally optimized through sophisticated strategies …