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Weavable thermoelectrics: advances, controversies, and future developments

Materials Futures, 2023
Owing to the capability of the conversion between thermal energy and electrical energy and their advantages of light weight, compactness, noise-free operation, and precision reliability, wearable thermoelectrics show great potential for diverse ...
Xiao-Lei Shi, Shuai Sun, Ting Wu, Jian Tu, Zhiming Zhou, Qingfeng Liu, Zhi-Gang Chen   +6 more
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Thermodynamics of Ionic Thermoelectrics for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting [PDF]

ACS Energy Letters
More than half of the waste heat rejected into the environment has temperatures lower than 100 $^\circ C$, which accounts for nearly 85 PWh/year worldwide. Efficiently harvesting low-grade heat could be a promising step toward carbon neutrality.
Xin Qian, Zhihao Ma, Qiangqiang Huang, Haoran Jiang, Ronggui Yang   +4 more
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Moisture-gradient-enhanced ionic thermoelectrics [PDF]

Nature Communications
Ionic thermoelectrics (i-TEs) demonstrate immense application potential in such fields as wearables and low-grade energy harvesting. Though adequate moisture absorption is required to facilitate ion dissociation in i-TEs, the impact of moisture gradient ...
Chunyu Zhao, Yidan Wu, Dongxing Song, Xing Zhang, Weigang Ma   +4 more
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Carrier-phonon decoupling in perovskite thermoelectrics via entropy engineering

Nature Communications
Thermoelectrics converting heat and electricity directly attract broad attentions. To enhance the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, one of the key points is to decouple the carrier-phonon transport.
Yunpeng Zheng, Qinghua Zhang, Caijuan Shi, Zhifang Zhou, Yang Lu, Jian Han, Hetian Chen, Yunpeng Ma, Yujun Zhang, Changpeng Lin, Wei Xu, Weigang Ma, Qian Li, Yueyang Yang, Bin Wei, Bingbing Yang, Mingchu Zou, Wenyu Zhang, Chang Liu, Lvye Dou, Dongliang Yang, Jin-Le Lan, Di Yi, Xing Zhang, Lin Gu, Ce-Wen Nan, Yuan-Hua Lin   +26 more
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Lattice defect engineering advances n-type PbSe thermoelectrics. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Te-free thermoelectrics have garnered significant interest due to their immense thermoelectric potential and low cost. However, most Te-free thermoelectrics have relatively low performance because of the strong electrical and thermal transport conflicts ...
Deng Q, Shi XL, Li M, Tan X, Li R, Wang C, Chen Y, Dong H, Ang R, Chen ZG.   +9 more
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Plastic/Ductile Bulk 2D van der Waals Single‐Crystalline SnSe2 for Flexible Thermoelectrics

Advanced Science, 2022
The recently discovered ductile/plastic inorganic semiconductors pave a new avenue toward flexible thermoelectrics. However, the power factors of current ductile/plastic inorganic semiconductors are usually low (below 5 µW cm−1 K−2) as compared with ...
Tingting Deng, Zhiqiang Gao, Pengfei Qiu, Tian‐Ran Wei, Jie Xiao, Genshui Wang, Lidong Chen, Xun Shi   +7 more
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Modulation of the Nernst Thermoelectrics by Regulating the Anomalous Hall and Nernst Angles [PDF]

Advanced Science
The large anomalous Nernst effect in magnetic Weyl semimetals is one of the most intriguing transport phenomena, which draws significant attention for its potential applications in topological thermoelectrics.
Meng Lyu, Junyan Liu, Jianlei Shen, Shen Zhang, Yang Liu, Jinying Yang, Yibo Wang, Yiting Feng, Binbin Wang, Hongxiang Wei, Enke Liu   +10 more
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A custom designed modular, scalable test system for an efficient performance evaluation of thermoelectric devices

Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2022
Reliable and efficient performance evaluation of thermoelectric (TE) elements and devices is critical for developing high performance and robust thermoelectric generator.
Ashwin Rao, Giri Joshi, Bed Poudel, Clinton Ballinger   +3 more
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Application of Materials Genome Methods in Thermoelectrics

Frontiers in Materials, 2022
Materials genome methods have played an essential role in accelerating the discovery of high-performance novel materials, and include high-throughput calculation, database construction, and machine learning.
Yan Cao, Ye Sheng, Xin Li, Lili Xi, Jiong Yang   +4 more
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Potential of Recycled Silicon and Silicon-Based Thermoelectrics for Power Generation

Crystals, 2022
Thermoelectrics can convert waste heat to electricity and vice versa. The energy conversion efficiency depends on materials figure of merit, zT, and Carnot efficiency. Due to the higher Carnot efficiency at a higher temperature gradient, high-temperature
Solco Samantha Faye Duran, Danwei Zhang, Wei Yang Samuel Lim, Jing Cao, Hongfei Liu, Qiang Zhu, Chee Kiang Ivan Tan, Jianwei Xu, Xian Jun Loh, Ady Suwardi   +9 more
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