Advanced Materials for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 116
Special Issue Editors
Interests: new energy conversion materials; thermoelectric materials; lattice dynamics; electron phonon coupling (EPC); search algorithms; density functional theory; density functional perturbation theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to showcase the research and innovation achievements of high-performance thermoelectric conversion materials, namely advanced materials for thermoelectric energy conversion. The aim is to promote the development of thermoelectric conversion materials and provide theoretical basis and technical support for the practical application of thermoelectric energy conversion technology. The research content will cover the following aspects:
- Discovery of new thermoelectric conversion materials, exploring new three-dimensional and low-dimensional thermoelectric conversion materials;
- Research on new theoretical methods for thermoelectric conversion and corresponding experimental techniques, considering the effects of higher-order anharmonicity and multiple scattering mechanisms on the thermal and electrical conductivity properties of materials;
- Performance and characteristics of various thermoelectric materials;
- Research using density functional theory and first-principles computational methods;
- Application of the Boltzmann transport equation to analyze the transport properties of materials;
- Study of the impact of dynamics of anharmonic lattices on heat transport in materials;
- Exploration of the characteristics and mechanisms of lattice heat transport and electronic transport;
- Study of the influence of phonon coherence effect on material properties using molecular dynamics based on machine learning potential to conduct research;
- Evaluation of the energy conversion efficiency of materials.
Prof. Dr. Zhenhong Dai
Prof. Dr. Yinchang Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermoelectric materials
- density functional theory and first-principles calculations
- dynamics of anharmonic lattices
- phonon coherence effect
- lattice heat transport and electronic transport
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