Advances in Thermoelectric Materials, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 42

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Interests: electronic structure theory; materials for energy conversion; magnetic and optical properties of matter; chemical–physical properties of surfaces; machine learning: automatic learning processes applied to condensed matter theory and materials discovery
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Dear Colleagues,

Thermoelectric energy conversion represents an excellent and viable way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide energy security to an increasing global population. However, although significant improvements in the performance of thermoelectric materials have been recently achieved, the path for practical applications of thermoelectric devices still appears long.

Given the success of the first edition of this Special Issue, a second volume has been launched, aiming to publish a set of papers that will help discover novel thermoelectric materials and provide a deeper understanding of the properties of existing ones through the application of theoretical and experimental methods. In particular, the correlation between material structure and thermoelectric properties, thermal transport, and thermal conductivity is noteworthy.

The materials framework may include, but is not limited to, ceramics, oxides and chalcogenides, alloys and intermetallic structures, 2D structures, and nanoalloys that combine inorganic and organic components. Papers that report the application of well-consolidated approaches for materials discovery, and papers that report the development of new methods or the enhancement in existing approaches, are of particular interest.

Dr. Marco Fronzi
Prof. Dr. Paolo Mele
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • thermoelectric materials energy conversion
  • greenhouse gas reduction
  • thermal transport
  • thermal conductivity
  • two-dimensional materials and nanoalloys
  • machine learning
  • theoretical and experimental methods

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