Advances in Thermoelectric Materials 2023-2024
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 8843
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanocomposites; thermoelectric; thermal conductivity; power factor; figure-of-merit
Interests: materials science; bulk alloys; nanocomposites; thermoelectric materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Issue of Crystals features cutting-edge reviews and original articles on thermoelectric materials. Thermoelectric systems, which can transform waste heat into electricity, are progressively being realized as a possible solution for the recovery of the large-scale waste heat in environmental and commercial perspectives. It is crucial to develop thermoelectric (TE) systems with high energy conversion efficiency, which is quantified by having a high figure of merit (ZT) that can be expressed as ZT= PF.T/κ, where PF (=σS2, here S is thermopower and σ is electrical conductivity) is the power factor, and σ is the thermal conductivity and T is the temperature, respectively. However, it is a foremost challenge to optimize intuitive conflicting. Taking into account the structural, chemical, and compositional complexity of thermoelectric materials, the scope to advance this research direction would value greatly from a large scientific community of chemists, physicists, and materials scientists. This Special Issue on “Advances in Thermoelectric materials” collects exciting papers on new material designs, thermoelectric devices, new thermoelectric transport theory, etc. This Issue features articles on the development of next-generation thermoelectric materials and insight into how materials chemistry and condensed material physics have been exploited to modulate electronic and phonon transport, mechanical, and thermal stability, and energy conversion efficiency via high-throughput experiments and theoretical approaches.
The topics of the Special Issue will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Thermoelectric material and devices;
Te-free thermoelectricity;
Nanocomposite-based thermoelectricity;
Organic‒Inorganic-based thermoelectric material and devices;
Thermoelectric flexible and transport properties;
Microstructurally induced electrical and thermal transport trends in thermoelectricity;
Synthesis-to-mechanism-driven thermoelectricity;
Two-dimensional thermoelectric material’s growth and properties.
Dr. Bushra Jabar
Dr. Adil Mansoor
Dr. Jamil Ur Rahman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermoelectric materials
- thermal conductivity
- crystalline structures
- two-dimensional structures
- microstructures
- figure-of-merit
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