Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermoelectric materials; micro/nanoscale heat transfer; thermal management of flexible electronic devices
Interests: micro/nanoscale heat transfer; thermal management of electronic devices; thermal functional materials; battery thermal management
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Dear Colleagues,
Thermoelectric energy conversion has attracted growing interest as a potential technology for waste heat harvesting, power generation, and cooling applications. Micro/nanoscale heat transfer effects play a significant role in the efficiency of thermoelectric energy conversion due to their impact on phonon and electron transport. Micro/nanoscale heat transfer is also essential for a range of emerging technologies such as micro/nanotechnology, information technology, biotechnology, and low-carbon energy applications.
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances in thermoelectric materials and micro/nanoscale heat transfer. This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews. Potential research areas include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Thermoelectric power generation;
- Thermoelectric cooling;
- Micro/nanoscale thermoelectric materials;
- Micro/nanoscale multi-phase flow and heat transfer;
- Micro/nanoscale thermophysical properties
- Interfacial thermal transport in micro/nanostructures;
- Low-dimensional materials;
- Phonon and electron transport;
- Electron–phonon interaction.
We hope that this Special Issue will stimulate further research in the field of thermoelectric materials and micro/nanoscale heat transfer. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ziman Wang
Prof. Dr. Xinyu Wang
Dr. Man Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermoelectric materials
- power generation
- thermoelectric cooling
- micro/nanoscale heat transfer
- micro/nanoscale interface
- phase change
- thermophysical properties
- phonon and electron transport
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