Innovative Directions in Thermoelectric Materials: Development and Characterization Approaches in Nano-Scale
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry at Nanoscale".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermoelectric materials; synthesis of inorganic materials; nano-structured materials; nano-composites; structural characterization; electrical and thermal transport properties
Interests: solid state chemistry; inorganic chemistry; materials science; phase diagram studies; exploratory synthesis; design of new materials; pnictide and chalcogenide compounds; nanostructured materials; thermoelectric materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, the growing need for energy consumption and the environmental demands for the decrease of carbon footprint make the development of new and sustainable energy technologies ever more urgent. Thermoelectrics have the potential to provide considerable energy savings since vast amounts of energy, ca. 66% globally, are lost to the environment as waste heat through industrial processes. Thermoelectric (TE) devices are able to convert directly heat into clean electrical power, without CO2 emissions. Considerable efforts have been made in recent years to develop new, low-cost, earth-abundant, and environmentally friendly materials with high TE efficiencies.
This Special Issue aims to address a range of new material design strategies and approaches related to the development, engineering and characterization of advanced thermoelectrics in nano-scale, including nano-structuring, nano-materials, nano-composites, low-dimensionality strategies, band structure engineering, hierarchical phonon scattering, etc. Research topics may include (but not limited to) novel synthetic methods, emphasizing sustainable and environmentally friendly concepts, advanced characterization techniques, involving investigations in atomic-, nano-, and micro-structure, electrical and thermal transport property measurements as well as computational approaches.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Panagiotis Mangelis
Dr. António Pereira Gonçalves
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermoelectrics
- nano-materials
- nanostructuring
- nano-composites
- doping
- figure-of-merit
- Seebeck coefficient
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