Advances in Thermoelectric Materials: From Particle to Bulk
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2566
Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the leading challenges facing humankind all over the world is the daily increases in energy demand and limitations of traditional energy sources. The complications of using these energies and efforts of combating global warming have encouraged both national and international agencies to find alternative clean energy sources in order to decrease dependence on traditional fossil fuels combustion, thus reducing CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, thermoelectric materials have been getting more attention as they can directly transform heat energy into usefully electrical energy using the well-known Seebeck effect. Additionally, due to their simplicity of design and fabrication, they can be used as standalone devices, e.g., using the heat of solar radiation in solar panels, or adopted to existing mechanisms enhancing their overall efficiency, e.g., harvesting the wasted heat from car exhaust. Nowadays, a wide range of commercial devices are available with relatively high performances that are based on metallic alloys. Nevertheless, their application is limited due to their compound and fabrication costs, toxicity, and specially limited working temperatures.
Therefore, for the past two decades, the focal point of the research has been to find new alternative materials with higher performance and a wider temperature range with reasonable cost. Moreover, these advances undoubtedly open the road to building devices and exploiting heat sources that were unattainable with the current technologies. Consequently, not only alloys or inorganic compounds, but also organic and composite materials are been investigated for their different properties.
This Special Issue will focus on new trends in thermoelectric materials performances, emphasizing novel preparation and fabrication methods using specific properties and characterizations of materials, such as microstructure control, in accordance with their applications. It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, short communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Shahed Rasekh
Dr. Gabriel Constantinescu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- composites and nanocomposites
- bulk and nanostructured materials with symmetry
- novel processing methods
- texturing
- flexible materials
- thin films
- intermetallics with symmetry structure
- chalcogenides
- oxides
- silicides
- organic materials and polymers
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