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Screening Promising Thermoelectric Materials in Binary Chalcogenides through High-Throughput Computations

(2020) Tiantian Jia et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Recent Progress of Two-Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials

(2020) Delong Li et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Inorganic thermoelectric materials: A review

(2020) Md. Nazibul Hasan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH

A brief history of the thermal properties metrology

(2020) Bruno Hay   MEASUREMENT

High-Performance Thermoelectric Oxides Based on Spinel Structure

(2020) M. Hussein N. Assadi et al.   ACS Applied Energy Materials

Phonon properties and thermal conductivity from first principles, lattice dynamics, and the Boltzmann transport equation

(2019) Alan J. H. McGaughey et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Development of Thermoelectric Conversion Materials Using Carbon Nanotube Sheets

(2019) Tsuyohiko Fujigaya   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

High-Throughput Screening for Advanced Thermoelectric Materials: Diamond-Like ABX2 Compounds

(2019) Ruoxi Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Computational strategies for design and discovery of nanostructured thermoelectrics

(2019) Shiqiang Hao et al.   npj Computational Materials

Thermal conductivity measurement techniques for characterizing thermal energy storage materials – A review

(2019) Anabel Palacios et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

2DMatPedia, an open computational database of two-dimensional materials from top-down and bottom-up approaches

(2019) Jun Zhou et al.   Scientific Data

Present and future thermoelectric materials toward wearable energy harvesting

(2019) Changcun Li et al.   Applied Materials Today

First-principles Modeling of Thermal Transport in Materials: Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges

(2019) Tengfei Ma et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMOPHYSICS

Na site doping a pathway for enhanced thermoelectric performance in Na1−x CoO2; the case of Gd and Yb dopants

(2019) M Hussein N Assadi   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

(2018) Jeffrey L. Blackburn et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reducing lattice thermal conductivity in schwarzites via engineering the hybridized phonon modes

(2018) Zhongwei Zhang et al.   CARBON

BoltzTraP2 , a program for interpolating band structures and calculating semi-classical transport coefficients

(2018) Georg K.H. Madsen et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

A review of solar photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid system for electricity generation

(2018) Guiqiang Li et al.   ENERGY

Performance of Functionally Graded Thermoelectric Materials and Devices: A Review

(2018) Corson L. Cramer et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Thermoelectric materials and heat exchangers for power generation – A review

(2018) Dipak S. Patil et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

A review of the development and applications of thermoelectric microgenerators for energy harvesting

(2018) O.H. Ando Junior et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

The effect of octahedral distortions on the electronic properties and magnetic interactions in O3 NaTMO2 compounds (TM = Ti–Ni & Zr–Pd)

(2018) M. Hussein N. Assadi et al.   RSC Advances

Semi-metals as potential thermoelectric materials

(2018) Maxime Markov et al.   Scientific Reports

The computational 2D materials database: High-throughput modeling and discovery of atomically thin crystals

(2018) Sten Haastrup et al.   2D Materials

Crystalline Solids with Intrinsically Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

(2018) Manoj K. Jana et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Nanostructural thermoelectric materials and their performance

(2018) Kai-Xuan Chen et al.   Frontiers in Energy

Discovery of High-Performance Thermoelectric Chalcogenides through Reliable High-Throughput Material Screening

(2018) Lili Xi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Formation energy and some mechanical properties of hydrogenated hexagonal monolayer of GeC

(2018) Zihab Sohbatzadeh et al.   PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER

Intrinsically Low Thermal Conductivity in BiSbSe3 : A Promising Thermoelectric Material with Multiple Conduction Bands

(2018) Xiaoying Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Looking for new thermoelectric materials among TMX intermetallics using high-throughput calculations

(2018) Celine Barreteau et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

(2018) Puqing Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Carbon Nanotube-Based Organic Thermoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting

(2018) Xiaodong Wang et al.   Polymers

Recent advanced thermal interfacial materials: A review of conducting mechanisms and parameters of carbon materials

(2018) Yinhang Zhang et al.   CARBON

Thermoelectric generators: A review of applications

(2017) Daniel Champier   ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT

A computational assessment of the electronic, thermoelectric, and defect properties of bournonite (CuPbSbS3) and related substitutions

(2017) Alireza Faghaninia et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Magnetism and spin entropy in Ru doped Na0.5CoO2

(2017) M. H. N. Assadi et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Ab Initio Green-Kubo Approach for the Thermal Conductivity of Solids

(2017) Christian Carbogno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Advances in hybrid solar photovoltaic and thermoelectric generators

(2017) Priscilla Huen et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

High Performance Thermoelectric Materials: Progress and Their Applications

(2017) Lei Yang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Computationally guided discovery of thermoelectric materials

(2017) Prashun Gorai et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

An efficient and accurate framework for calculating lattice thermal conductivity of solids: AFLOW—AAPL Automatic Anharmonic Phonon Library

(2017) Jose J. Plata et al.   npj Computational Materials

MPInterfaces: A Materials Project based Python tool for high-throughput computational screening of interfacial systems

(2016) Kiran Mathew et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Measurement Techniques for Thermal Conductivity and Interfacial Thermal Conductance of Bulk and Thin Film Materials

(2016) Dongliang Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGING

Anisotropic Thermoelectric Response in Two-Dimensional Puckered Structures

(2016) Leonardo Medrano Sandonas et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

A Review on Organic Polymer-Based Thermoelectric Materials

(2016) Shunjin Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Recent progress in half-Heusler thermoelectric materials

(2016) Lihong Huang et al.   MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN

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(2016) Xun Shi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Full Heusler Semiconductors

(2016) Jiangang He et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Polaritons in van der Waals materials

(2016) D. N. Basov et al.   SCIENCE

Understanding thermoelectric properties from high-throughput calculations: trends, insights, and comparisons with experiment

(2016) Wei Chen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Cascade Electronic Refrigerator Using Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

(2016) H. Q. Nguyen et al.   Physical Review Applied

The Cambridge Structural Database

(2016) Colin R. Groom et al.   Acta Crystallographica Section B-Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials

Tuning Thermal Transport in Ultrathin Silicon Membranes by Surface Nanoscale Engineering

(2015) Sanghamitra Neogi et al.   ACS Nano

Restoration of long range order of Na ions in NaxCoO2 at high temperatures by sodium site doping

(2015) M.H.N. Assadi et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Thermoelectric mini cooler coupled with micro thermosiphon for CPU cooling system

(2015) Di Liu et al.   ENERGY

Band engineering of high performance p-type FeNbSb based half-Heusler thermoelectric materials for figure of merit zT > 1

(2015) Chenguang Fu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Thermal transport in free-standing silicon membranes: influence of dimensional reduction and surface nanostructures

(2015) Sanghamitra Neogi et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B

Thermoelectric Properties of Amorphous Zr-Ni-Sn Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering

(2015) Yang Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Computational Screening of 2D Materials for Photocatalysis

(2015) Arunima K. Singh et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

A review on the flexural mode of graphene: lattice dynamics, thermal conduction, thermal expansion, elasticity and nanomechanical resonance

(2015) Jin-Wu Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Dopant incorporation site in sodium cobaltate's host lattice: a critical factor for thermoelectric performance

(2015) M H N Assadi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Thermoelectric properties of single-layered SnSe sheet

(2015) Fancy Qian Wang et al.   Nanoscale

Highly anisotropic and robust excitons in monolayer black phosphorus

(2015) Xiaomu Wang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of carbon nanotubes at elevated temperature

(2015) P. H. Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Anisotropic intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of phosphorene from first principles

(2015) Guangzhao Qin et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Diameter dependence of thermoelectric power of semiconducting carbon nanotubes

(2015) Nguyen T. Hung et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Distributions of phonon lifetimes in Brillouin zones

(2015) Atsushi Togo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Force and heat current formulas for many-body potentials in molecular dynamics simulations with applications to thermal conductivity calculations

(2015) Zheyong Fan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Phonon hydrodynamics in two-dimensional materials

(2015) Andrea Cepellotti et al.   Nature Communications

Strongly anisotropic in-plane thermal transport in single-layer black phosphorene

(2015) Ankit Jain et al.   Scientific Reports

Thermal conductivity of silicene from first-principles

(2014) Han Xie et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Phonon transport in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides: A first-principles study

(2014) Xiaokun Gu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Low thermal conductivity and triaxial phononic anisotropy of SnSe

(2014) Jesús Carrete et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Phonon thermal conductivity of monolayer MoS2: A comparison with single layer graphene

(2014) Xiaolin Wei et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Superior mechanical flexibility of phosphorene and few-layer black phosphorus

(2014) Qun Wei et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

ShengBTE: A solver of the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons

(2014) Wu Li et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Early and current experimental methods for determining thermal conductivities of metals

(2014) Simón Reif-Acherman   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Anharmonic force constants extracted from first-principles molecular dynamics: applications to heat transfer simulations

(2014) T Tadano et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Nanostructured Clathrate Phonon Glasses: Beyond the Rattling Concept

(2014) Yuping He et al.   NANO LETTERS

Thermal Conductivity of Graphene and Graphite: Collective Excitations and Mean Free Paths

(2014) Giorgia Fugallo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals

(2014) Li-Dong Zhao et al.   NATURE

Lattice thermal conductivity of Bi, Sb, and Bi-Sb alloy from first principles

(2014) Sangyeop Lee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Coexistence of size-dependent and size-independent thermal conductivities in phosphorene

(2014) Liyan Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Phonon thermal transport in strained and unstrained graphene from first principles

(2014) L. Lindsay et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Lattice vibrational modes and phonon thermal conductivity of monolayer MoS2

(2014) Yongqing Cai et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity of single-crystal MgO and Al2O3 and related compounds as a function of temperature

(2014) Anne M. Hofmeister   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS

Hinge-like structure induced unusual properties of black phosphorus and new strategies to improve the thermoelectric performance

(2014) Guangzhao Qin et al.   Scientific Reports

Beneficial Contribution of Alloy Disorder to Electron and Phonon Transport in Half-Heusler Thermoelectric Materials

(2013) Hanhui Xie et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Atomistic origin of glass-like Zn4Sb3 thermal conductivity

(2013) Xudong Li et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Lattice thermal conductivity in bulk and nanosheet NaxCoO2

(2013) D.O. Demchenko et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Inorganic Materials Database for Exploring the Nature of Material

(2013) Yibin Xu et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Porous mullite ceramics with low thermal conductivity prepared by foaming and starch consolidation

(2013) Lunlun Gong et al.   JOURNAL OF POROUS MATERIALS

Suppression of thermal conductivity by rattling modes in thermoelectric sodium cobaltate

(2013) D. J. Voneshen et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

When thermoelectrics reached the nanoscale

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

Anharmonic properties from a generalized third-orderab initioapproach: Theory and applications to graphite and graphene

(2013) Lorenzo Paulatto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ab initiovariational approach for evaluating lattice thermal conductivity

(2013) Giorgia Fugallo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Anomalous thermal response of silicene to uniaxial stretching

(2013) Ming Hu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Effect of Hf Concentration on Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructured N-Type Half-Heusler Materials HfxZr1-xNiSn0.99Sb0.01

(2013) Shuo Chen et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A bottom-up route to enhance thermoelectric figures of merit in graphene nanoribbons

(2013) Hâldun Sevinçli et al.   Scientific Reports

Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation

(2013) Anubhav Jain et al.   APL Materials

Lone pair electrons minimize lattice thermal conductivity

(2012) Michele D. Nielsen et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Thermoelectric properties of tungsten-substituted Heusler Fe2VAl alloy

(2012) M. Mikami et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures

(2012) Kanishka Biswas et al.   NATURE

Phase separation as a key to a thermoelectric high efficiency

(2012) Michael Schwall et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Phonon conduction in PbSe, PbTe, and PbTe1−xSexfrom first-principles calculations

(2012) Zhiting Tian et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Selecting the suitable dopants: electronic structures of transition metal and rare earth doped thermoelectric sodium cobaltate

(2012) M. H. N. Assadi et al.   RSC Advances

A review on the enhancement of figure of merit from bulk to nano-thermoelectric materials

(2012) Hilaal Alam et al.   Nano Energy

Recent Advances in Nanostructured Thermoelectric Half-Heusler Compounds

(2012) Wenjie Xie et al.   Nanomaterials

Thermoelectric Phenomena, Materials, and Applications

(2011) Terry M. Tritt   Annual Review of Materials Research

Thermal conductivity anisotropy and grain structure in Ge2Sb2Te5 films

(2011) Jaeho Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Effects of Heavy Element Substitution on Electronic Structure and Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Fe2VAl Thermoelectric Material

(2011) Yuichi Terazawa et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Phonon engineering through crystal chemistry

(2011) Eric S. Toberer et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Simultaneous Large Enhancements in Thermopower and Electrical Conductivity of Bulk Nanostructured Half-Heusler Alloys

(2011) Julien P. A. Makongo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Giant anharmonic phonon scattering in PbTe

(2011) O. Delaire et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Enhanced thermal conductivity and isotope effect in single-layer hexagonal boron nitride

(2011) L. Lindsay et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Role of Lone-Pair Electrons in Producing Minimum Thermal Conductivity in Nitrogen-Group Chalcogenide Compounds

(2011) Eric J. Skoug et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nitrogen doping and curvature effects on thermal conductivity of graphene: A non-equilibrium molecular dynamics study

(2011) Bohayra Mortazavi et al.   SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS

Crystal and electronic structure of PbTe/CdTe nanostructures

(2011) Małgorzata Bukała et al.   Nanoscale Research Letters

Structural effects on the lattice thermal conductivity of ternary antimony- and bismuth-containing chalcogenide semiconductors

(2010) Eric J. Skoug et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Diameter dependence of SiGe nanowire thermal conductivity

(2010) Zhao Wang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Crystal structure prediction using the minima hopping method

(2010) Maximilian Amsler et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties:PbBi2Te4and related intergrowth compounds

(2010) Lijun Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Electronic transport properties of electron- and hole-doped semiconductingC1bHeusler compounds:NiTi1−xMxSn(M=Sc,V)

(2010) Siham Ouardi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Flexural phonons and thermal transport in graphene

(2010) L. Lindsay et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal conductivity through the 19th century

(2010) T. N. Narasimhan   PHYSICS TODAY

Theoretical Methods for Calculating the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Minerals

(2010) S. Stackhouse et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

High-performance half-Heusler thermoelectric materials Hf1−x ZrxNiSn1−ySby prepared by levitation melting and spark plasma sintering

(2009) Cui Yu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Analysis of thermoelectric cooler performance for high power electronic packages

(2009) H.Y. Zhang et al.   APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING

Effect of thallium doping on the thermal conductivity of PbTe single crystals

(2009) G. A. Akhmedova et al.   INORGANIC MATERIALS

Crystallography Open Database – an open-access collection of crystal structures

(2009) Saulius Gražulis et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

High Thermoelectric Power Factor Near Room Temperature in Full-Heusler Alloys

(2009) Eric J. Skoug et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Electron and phonon transport in silicon nanowires: Atomistic approach to thermoelectric properties

(2009) Troels Markussen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Predicting phonon properties and thermal conductivity from anharmonic lattice dynamics calculations and molecular dynamics simulations

(2009) J. E. Turney et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Monolayer honeycomb structures of group-IV elements and III-V binary compounds: First-principles calculations

(2009) H. Şahin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Melting of the Na Layers in SolidNa0.8CoO2

(2009) M. Weller et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Two- and One-Dimensional Honeycomb Structures of Silicon and Germanium

(2009) S. Cahangirov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Evaluation of Half-Heusler Compounds as Thermoelectric Materials Based on the Calculated Electrical Transport Properties

(2008) Jiong Yang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

(Zr,Hf)Co(Sb,Sn) half-Heusler phases as high-temperature (>700°C) p-type thermoelectric materials

(2008) Slade R. Culp et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Heat Conductance Is Strongly Anisotropic for Pristine Silicon Nanowires

(2008) Troels Markussen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires

(2008) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   NATURE

Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials

(2008) Akram I. Boukai et al.   NATURE

Complex thermoelectric materials

(2008) G. Jeffrey Snyder et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Density functional perturbation theory with spin-orbit coupling: Phonon band structure of lead

(2008) Matthieu J. Verstraete et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Electronic transport in Heusler-typeFe2VAl1−xMxalloys(M=B,In,Si)

(2008) M. Vasundhara et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Intrinsically Minimal Thermal Conductivity in CubicI−V−VI2Semiconductors

(2008) D. T. Morelli et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Symmetry constraints on phonon dispersion in graphene

(2008) L.A. Falkovsky   PHYSICS LETTERS A

Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems

(2008) Lon E. Bell   SCIENCE

Review of electronic transport models for thermoelectric materials

(2008) A. Bulusu et al.   SUPERLATTICES AND MICROSTRUCTURES