Nanoscale Organic Thermoelectric Materials: Measurement, Theoretical Models, and Optimization Strategies

Gate controlling of quantum interference and direct observation of anti-resonances in single molecule charge transport

(2019) Yueqi Li et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Anti-resonance features of destructive quantum interference in single-molecule thiophene junctions achieved by electrochemical gating

(2019) Jie Bai et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Boosting the Seebeck Coefficient for Organic Coordination Polymers: Role of Doping-Induced Polaron Band Formation

(2019) Yunpeng Liu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Orbitally driven giant thermal conductance associated with abnormal strain dependence in hydrogenated graphene-like borophene

(2019) Jia He et al.   npj Computational Materials

Stretch-Driven Increase in Ultrahigh Thermal Conductance of Hydrogenated Borophene and Dimensionality Crossover in Phonon Transmission

(2018) Dengfeng Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanoscale thermal transport: Theoretical method and application

(2018) Yu-Jia Zeng et al.   Chinese Physics B

Solution-printable fullerene/TiS2 organic/inorganic hybrids for high-performance flexible n-type thermoelectrics

(2018) Liming Wang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Negative Differential Conductance in Polyporphyrin Oligomers with Nonlinear Backbones

(2018) Guowen Kuang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Thermoelectricity in single-molecule devices

(2018) Achim Harzheim   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

3D charge and 2D phonon transports leading to high out-of-planeZTin n-type SnSe crystals

(2018) Cheng Chang et al.   SCIENCE

Polymer films with ultrahigh thermoelectric properties arising from significant seebeck coefficient enhancement by ion accumulation on surface

(2018) Zeng Fan et al.   Nano Energy

Ultra-low thermal conductivity of two-dimensional phononic crystals in the incoherent regime

(2018) Guofeng Xie et al.   npj Computational Materials

A local resonance mechanism for thermal rectification in pristine/branched graphene nanoribbon junctions

(2018) Xue-Kun Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Comprehensive suppression of single-molecule conductance using destructive σ-interference

(2018) Marc H. Garner et al.   NATURE

Mechanically controlled quantum interference in graphene break junctions

(2018) Sabina Caneva et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Colloquium : Phononic thermal properties of two-dimensional materials

(2018) Xiaokun Gu et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Magnetic hysteresis up to 80 kelvin in a dysprosium metallocene single-molecule magnet

(2018) Fu-Sheng Guo et al.   SCIENCE

Ultrahigh thermoelectric performance in Cu2Se-based hybrid materials with highly dispersed molecular CNTs

(2017) Raghavendra Nunna et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Perspective: Thermal and thermoelectric transport in molecular junctions

(2017) Longji Cui et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

A Strategy to Suppress Phonon Transport in Molecular Junctions Using π-Stacked Systems

(2017) Qian Li et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Conjugated-Backbone Effect of Organic Small Molecules for n-Type Thermoelectric Materials with ZT over 0.2

(2017) Dazhen Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-performance thermoelectricity in edge-over-edge zinc-porphyrin molecular wires

(2017) Mohammed Noori et al.   Nanoscale

Superparamagnetic enhancement of thermoelectric performance

(2017) Wenyu Zhao et al.   NATURE

Heat transport through atomic contacts

(2017) Nico Mosso et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Peltier cooling in molecular junctions

(2017) Longji Cui et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Influence of anchoring groups on single-molecular junction conductance: Theoretical comparative study of thiol and amine

(2017) Fang Xie et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

The length and hydrogenation effects on electronic transport properties of carbon-based molecular wires

(2017) Yan-Hong Zhou et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Pseudospins and Topological Effects of Phonons in a Kekulé Lattice

(2017) Yizhou Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions

(2017) Longji Cui et al.   SCIENCE

Ultrahigh thermoelectric power factor in flexible hybrid inorganic-organic superlattice

(2017) Chunlei Wan et al.   Nature Communications

Excellent Thermoelectric Properties in monolayer WSe2 Nanoribbons due to Ultralow Phonon Thermal Conductivity

(2017) Jue Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Synthesis of High-Quality Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Monolayer In-Plane Heterostructure on Cu-Ni Alloy

(2017) Guangyuan Lu et al.   Advanced Science

Excellent thermoelectric properties induced by different contact geometries in phenalenyl-based single-molecule devices

(2017) Xuan-Hao Cao et al.   Scientific Reports

Anisotropic and Ultralow Phonon Thermal Transport in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites: Atomistic Insights into Solar Cell Thermal Management and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Efficiency

(2016) Mingchao Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

On Approaching the Limit of Molecular Magnetic Anisotropy: A Near-Perfect Pentagonal Bipyramidal Dysprosium(III) Single-Molecule Magnet

(2016) You-Song Ding et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Phonon wave interference in graphene and boron nitride superlattice

(2016) Xue-Kun Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermopower measurements in molecular junctions

(2016) Laura Rincón-García et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The thermal conductivity in hybridised graphene and boron nitride nanoribbons modulated with strain

(2016) Xue-Kun Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Resonant Charge Transport in Conjugated Molecular Wires beyond 10 nm Range

(2016) Guowen Kuang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A New Approach to Materials Discovery for Electronic and Thermoelectric Properties of Single-Molecule Junctions

(2016) David Zsolt Manrique et al.   NANO LETTERS

Mechanically controlled quantum interference in individual π-stacked dimers

(2016) Riccardo Frisenda et al.   Nature Chemistry

Blocking Phonon Transport by Structural Resonances in Alloy-Based Nanophononic Metamaterials Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

(2016) Shiyun Xiong et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Chemical principles of single-molecule electronics

(2016) Timothy A. Su et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Modulated Thermoelectric Properties of Organic Semiconductors Using Field-Effect Transistors

(2015) Fengjiao Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Significant Electronic Thermal Transport in the Conducting Polymer Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

(2015) Annie Weathers et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Thin Film Thermoelectric Metal-Organic Framework with High Seebeck Coefficient and Low Thermal Conductivity

(2015) Kristopher J. Erickson et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Spin-crossover molecule based thermoelectric junction

(2015) Dibyajyoti Ghosh et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

The enhancement of the thermoelectric performance in zigzag graphene nanoribbon by edge states

(2015) Shihua Tan et al.   CARBON

Enhancement of thermoelectric performance in β-graphyne nanoribbons by suppressing phononic thermal conductance

(2015) Wu-Xing Zhou et al.   CARBON

Basic concepts of quantum interference and electron transport in single-molecule electronics

(2015) C. J. Lambert   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Interference enhanced thermoelectricity in quinoid type structures

(2015) M. Strange et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Mechanical Tuning of Thermal Transport in a Molecular Junction

(2015) Qian Li et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Toward High Performance n-Type Thermoelectric Materials by Rational Modification of BDPPV Backbones

(2015) Ke Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Quantum Thermopower of Metallic Atomic-Size Contacts at Room Temperature

(2015) Charalambos Evangeli et al.   NANO LETTERS

Oligoyne Molecular Junctions for Efficient Room Temperature Thermoelectric Power Generation

(2015) Hatef Sadeghi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Redox-Dependent Franck–Condon Blockade and Avalanche Transport in a Graphene–Fullerene Single-Molecule Transistor

(2015) Chit Siong Lau et al.   NANO LETTERS

Single-Molecule Junctions with Epitaxial Graphene Nanoelectrodes

(2015) Konrad Ullmann et al.   NANO LETTERS

Mechanical tuning of conductance and thermopower in helicene molecular junctions

(2015) Jaroslav Vacek et al.   Nanoscale

Phonon-induced diamagnetic force and its effect on the lattice thermal conductivity

(2015) Hyungyu Jin et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Molecular design and control of fullerene-based bi-thermoelectric materials

(2015) Laura Rincón-García et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Flexible n-type thermoelectric materials by organic intercalation of layered transition metal dichalcogenide TiS 2

(2015) Chunlei Wan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Phonon wave interference and thermal bandgap materials

(2015) Martin Maldovan   NATURE MATERIALS

Efficient approach for modeling phonon transmission probability in nanoscale interfacial thermal transport

(2015) Zhun-Yong Ong et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Nanoscale Directional Motion towards Regions of Stiffness

(2015) Tienchong Chang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High thermopower of mechanically stretched single-molecule junctions

(2015) Makusu Tsutsui et al.   Scientific Reports

Inorganic–organic superlattice thin films for thermoelectrics

(2015) J.-P. Niemelä et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Understanding Lattice Strain-Controlled Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors: A Computational Study

(2014) Xiaoyan Zheng et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Point Defect Engineering of High-Performance Bismuth-Telluride-Based Thermoelectric Materials

(2014) Lipeng Hu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Organic Thermoelectric Materials: Emerging Green Energy Materials Converting Heat to Electricity Directly and Efficiently

(2014) Qian Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Designing π-stacked molecular structures to control heat transport through molecular junctions

(2014) Gediminas Kiršanskas et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Magnetic configuration dependence of magnetoresistance in a Fe-porphyrin-like carbon nanotube spintronic device

(2014) Jing Zeng et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

From charge transport parameters to charge mobility in organic semiconductors through multiscale simulation

(2014) Zhigang Shuai et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Molecular Spintronics: Destructive Quantum Interference Controlled by a Gate

(2014) Aldilene Saraiva-Souza et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High thermal conductivity in amorphous polymer blends by engineered interchain interactions

(2014) Gun-Ho Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Electrostatic control of thermoelectricity in molecular junctions

(2014) Youngsang Kim et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance and Anomalous Seebeck Effects in Topological Insulators

(2014) Yong Xu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Length-Dependent Thermal Transport along Molecular Chains

(2014) T. Meier et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Enhancement of Thermoelectric Performance by Reducing Phonon Thermal Conductance in Multiple Core-shell Nanowires

(2014) Wu-Xing Zhou et al.   Scientific Reports

Mechanically Controllable Break Junctions for Molecular Electronics

(2013) Dong Xiang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Signatures of Quantum Interference Effects on Charge Transport Through a Single Benzene Ring

(2013) Carlos R. Arroyo et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Molecule–electrode interfaces in molecular electronic devices

(2013) Chuancheng Jia et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Ballistic thermoelectric properties in boron nitride nanoribbons

(2013) Zhong-Xiang Xie et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Phonon interference effects in molecular junctions

(2013) Troels Markussen   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Length-Dependent Thermopower of Highly Conducting Au–C Bonded Single Molecule Junctions

(2013) J. R. Widawsky et al.   NANO LETTERS

Three-Terminal Single-Molecule Junctions Formed by Mechanically Controllable Break Junctions with Side Gating

(2013) Dong Xiang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Magnetic relaxation pathways in lanthanide single-molecule magnets

(2013) Robin J. Blagg et al.   Nature Chemistry

Semi-metallic polymers

(2013) Olga Bubnova et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Engineered doping of organic semiconductors for enhanced thermoelectric efficiency

(2013) G-H. Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Single-molecule junctions beyond electronic transport

(2013) Sriharsha V. Aradhya et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

When thermoelectrics reached the nanoscale

(2013) Joseph P. Heremans et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Controllable unzipping for intramolecular junctions of graphene nanoribbons and single-walled carbon nanotubes

(2013) Dacheng Wei et al.   Nature Communications

Enhancement of thermoelectric properties in graphene nanoribbons modulated with stub structures

(2012) Zhong-Xiang Xie et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Interface Formation in Monolayer Graphene-Boron Nitride Heterostructures

(2012) P. Sutter et al.   NANO LETTERS

Bonding-induced thermal conductance enhancement at inorganic heterointerfaces using nanomolecular monolayers

(2012) Peter J. O’Brien et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Effects of chemical bonding on heat transport across interfaces

(2012) Mark D. Losego et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Observation of quantum interference in molecular charge transport

(2012) Constant M. Guédon et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Atomistic modeling of anharmonic phonon-phonon scattering in nanowires

(2012) Mathieu Luisier   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Tunable charge and spin Seebeck effects in magnetic molecular junctions

(2012) Pablo S. Cornaglia et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Convergence of Conduction Bands as a Means of Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance ofn-TypeMg2Si1−xSnxSolid Solutions

(2012) Wei Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Semiconducting π-Conjugated Systems in Field-Effect Transistors: A Material Odyssey of Organic Electronics

(2011) Chengliang Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Effect of Length and Contact Chemistry on the Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Molecular Junctions

(2011) Aaron Tan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multiple-Filled Skutterudites: High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit through Separately Optimizing Electrical and Thermal Transports

(2011) Xun Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Thermoelectricity in Fullerene–Metal Heterojunctions

(2011) Shannon K. Yee et al.   NANO LETTERS

Room-Temperature Gating of Molecular Junctions Using Few-Layer Graphene Nanogap Electrodes

(2011) Ferry Prins et al.   NANO LETTERS

Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics

(2011) Yanzhong Pei et al.   NATURE

Optimization of the thermoelectric figure of merit in the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

(2011) Olga Bubnova et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

First-principles scheme for spectral adjustment in nanoscale transport

(2011) Víctor M García-Suárez et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Colloquium: Heat flow and thermoelectricity in atomic and molecular junctions

(2011) Yonatan Dubi et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Giant Thermoelectric Effect from Transmission Supernodes

(2010) Justin P. Bergfield et al.   ACS Nano

Measurement of thermopower and current-voltage characteristics of molecular junctions to identify orbital alignment

(2010) Aaron Tan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Semiconducting polymers: the Third Generation

(2010) Alan J. Heeger   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The Relation between Structure and Quantum Interference in Single Molecule Junctions

(2010) Troels Markussen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Violation of Fourier's law and anomalous heat diffusion in silicon nanowires

(2010) Nuo Yang et al.   Nano Today

Tuning intermolecular non-covalent interactions for nanowires of organic semiconductors

(2010) Lang Jiang et al.   Nanoscale

‘Soft’ Au, Pt and Cu contacts for molecular junctions through surface-diffusion-mediated deposition

(2010) Andrew P. Bonifas et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Polyethylene nanofibres with very high thermal conductivities

(2010) Sheng Shen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Quantized thermal conductance at low temperatures in quantum wire with catenoidal contacts

(2010) Xiao-Fang Peng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Phonon interference at self-assembled monolayer interfaces: Molecular dynamics simulations

(2010) Lin Hu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermoelectric Effect in Single-Molecule-Magnet Junctions

(2010) Rui-Qiang Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Quantum-Interference-Controlled Three-Terminal Molecular Transistors Based on a Single Ring-Shaped Molecule Connected to Graphene Nanoribbon Electrodes

(2010) Kamal K. Saha et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High-Performance Photoresponsive Organic Nanotransistors with Single-Layer Graphenes as Two-Dimensional Electrodes

(2009) Yang Cao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Transitions between semiconductor and metal induced by mixed deformation in carbon nanotube devices

(2009) Yun Ren et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electronic transport properties in doped C60 molecular devices

(2009) Xiao-Jiao Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

New bulk Materials for Thermoelectric Power Generation: Clathrates and Complex Antimonides†

(2009) Holger Kleinke   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Superior Contact for Single-Molecule Conductance: Electronic Coupling of Thiolate and Isothiocyanate on Pt, Pd, and Au

(2009) Chih-Hung Ko et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Novel SThM nanoprobe for thermal properties investigation of micro- and nanoelectronic devices

(2009) P. Janus et al.   MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Thermopower of Molecular Junctions: An ab Initio Study

(2009) San-Huang Ke et al.   NANO LETTERS

Identifying the Length Dependence of Orbital Alignment and Contact Coupling in Molecular Heterojunctions

(2009) Jonathan A. Malen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Exploring the limits of the self-consistent Born approximation for inelastic electronic transport

(2009) William Lee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Molecular signature of highly conductive metal-molecule-metal junctions

(2009) O. Tal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermospin effects in a quantum dot connected to ferromagnetic leads

(2009) Yonatan Dubi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A frequency-domain thermoreflectance method for the characterization of thermal properties

(2009) Aaron J. Schmidt et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Measuring Relative Barrier Heights in Molecular Electronic Junctions with Transition Voltage Spectroscopy

(2008) Jeremy M. Beebe et al.   ACS Nano

Negative differential resistance behaviors in porphyrin molecular junctions modulated with side groups

(2008) Meng-Qiu Long et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Quantum Interference in Acyclic Systems: Conductance of Cross-Conjugated Molecules

(2008) Gemma C. Solomon et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Observation of the spin Seebeck effect

(2008) K. Uchida et al.   NATURE

Nonequilibrium Green’s function method for phonon-phonon interactions and ballistic-diffusive thermal transport

(2008) Yong Xu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Optimal thermoelectric figure of merit of a molecular junction

(2008) Padraig Murphy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Subnanometer Motion of Cargoes Driven by Thermal Gradients Along Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) A. Barreiro et al.   SCIENCE