Thermoelectric Materials
Scope
Solid-state thermoelectric technology, which could directly convert heat into electricity and vice versa, provides a promising solution for the current energy crisis. The development of high-efficiency thermoelectric materials has recently gained tremendous attention from scientists and engineers in the fields of solid-state physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering. On the one hand, high-performance thermoelectric devices exhibit multiple advantages for power generation and refrigeration and thus, have been used for deep-space detectors, precise-temperature controllers, waste-heat recovery, solid-state cooling, etc.; on the other hand, the studies of thermoelectric transport have become a significant means to deeply understand the interplay of quasiparticles in emerging materials, i.e., electrons and phonons.
Aiming at promoting further applications and fundamental investigations of thermoelectrics, we organized this special issue in Research by inviting internationally active experts to contribute their high-quality original research and review articles. This special issue covers multiple aspects of recent thermoelectric studies, including rising-star materials, the relationship of microstructure and transport properties, conventional and orbital phase diagram, self-powered wearable thermoelectrics, weak temperature-dependent lattice thermal conductivity, and the magneto-Seebeck effect. We hope you will enjoy reading these exciting articles.
We would like to thank all the contributing authors and the editors of Research for making this fantastic special issue possible.
Guest Editors
Prof. Zhifeng Ren, University of Houston, USA
Prof. Binghui Ge, Anhui University, China
Table of Contents
Maxwell T. Dylla, Alexander Dunn, Shashwat Anand, Anubhav Jain, and G. Jeffrey Snyder
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 6375171, 8 pages, 2020
Phase Boundary Mapping in ZrNiSn Half-Heusler for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance
Xiaofang Li, Pengbo Yang, Yumei Wang, Zongwei Zhang, Dandan Qin, Wenhua Xue, Chen Chen, Yifang Huang, Xiaodong Xie, Xinyu Wang, Mujin Yang, Cuiping Wang, Feng Cao, Jiehe Sui, Xingjun Liu, and Qian Zhang
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 4630948, 9 pages, 2020
Manipulation of Band Degeneracy and Lattice Strain for Extraordinary PbTe Thermoelectrics
Yixuan Wu, Pengfei Nan, Zhiwei Chen, Zezhu Zeng, Siqi Lin, Xinyue Zhang, Hongliang Dong, Zhiqiang Chen, Hongkai Gu, Wen Li, Yue Chen, Binghui Ge, and Yanzhong Pei
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 8151059, 12 pages, 2020
Li You, Zhili Li, Quanying Ma, Shiyang He, Qidong Zhang, Feng Wang, Guoqiang Wu, Qingyi Li, Pengfei Luo, Jiye Zhang, and Jun Luo
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 1736798, 8 pages, 2020
Chenguang Fu, Satya N. Guin, Thomas Scaffidi, Yan Sun, Rana Saha, Sarah J. Watzman, Abhay K. Srivastava, Guowei Li, Walter Schnelle, Stuart S. P. Parkin, Claudia Felser, and Johannes Gooth
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 4643507, 8 pages, 2020
The Thermoelectric Properties of n-Type Bismuth Telluride: Bismuth Selenide Alloys Bi2Te3-xSex
Ian T. Witting, Francesco Ricci, Thomas C. Chasapis, Geoffroy Hautier, and G. Jeffrey Snyder
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 4361703, 15 pages, 2020
Defects Engineering with Multiple Dimensions in Thermoelectric Materials
Chenxi Zhao, Zhou Li, Tianjiao Fan, Chong Xiao, and Yi Xie
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 9652749, 23 pages, 2020
N-Type Mg3Sb2-xBix Alloys as Promising Thermoelectric Materials
Hongjing Shang, Zhongxin Liang, Congcong Xu, Jun Mao, Hongwei Gu, Fazhu Ding, and Zhifeng Ren
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 1219461, 8 pages, 2020
High-Performance Mg3Sb2-xBix Thermoelectrics: Progress and Perspective
Airan Li, Chenguang Fu, Xinbing Zhao, and Tiejun Zhu
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 1934848, 22 pages, 2020
The Electronic Transport Channel Protection and Tuning in Real Space to Boost the Thermoelectric Performance of Mg3+δSb2-yBiy near Room Temperature
Zhijia Han, Zhigang Gui, Y. B. Zhu, Peng Qin, Bo-Ping Zhang, Wenqing Zhang, Li Huang, and Weishu Liu
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 1672051, 12 pages, 2020
Achieving High Thermoelectric Performance in Rare-Earth Element-Free CaMg2Bi2 with High Carrier Mobility and Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity
Muchun Guo, Fengkai Guo, Jianbo Zhu, Li Yin, Qian Zhang, Wei Cai, and Jiehe Sui
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 5016564, 10 pages, 2020
Violation of the T-1 Relationship in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Mg3Sb2 with Locally Asymmetric Vibrations
Yifan Zhu, Yi Xia, Yancheng Wang, Ye Sheng, Jiong Yang, Chenguang Fu, Airan Li, Tiejun Zhu, Jun Luo, Christopher Wolverton, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Jianjun Liu, a
Research, vol. 2020, Article ID 4589786, 10 pages, 2020