Topological Insulators with Enhanced Transport Properties for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2019) | Viewed by 181
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermoelectric materials; nanostructures; thermodynamics and kinetics of materials; interfaces in materials; lattice dynamics; density functional theory (DFT); materials characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Improving energy management efficiency and seeking new energy harvesting technologies play a primary role in today’s scientific research and development efforts. Thermoelectric (TE) devices are able to generate electrical power from waste heat, as well as to pump heat from one pole to the other, thereby serving as solid state coolers. Conventional approaches in TE materials development seem to have reached their saturation, as the TE conversion efficiency of a given material no longer improves the application of traditional methods. In this sense, topological insulators (TIs) have emerged as a new class of materials with intriguing electronic transport properties, which may offer refreshing concepts to the field of TE materials development.
This Special Issue of Materials will be gathering articles dealing with both experimental and computational aspects involving fundamental insight of the correlation between TI and TE characteristics, as well as an exploration of the ways of harnessing TI nature to optimize TE performance.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit manuscripts for this Special Issue in the form of full papers, review articles, and communications.
Prof. Yaron Amouyal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Energy conversion
- Thermoelectric materials
- Topological insulators
- Nanostructures
- Electronic transport
- Band structure engineering
- Interfaces in materials
- Density functional theory (DFT)
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