TY - BOOK ID - 133853098 TI - Recent Advances in Thermoelectric Materials for High Efficiency Energy Conversion and Refrigeration PY - 2022 PB - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Technology: general issues KW - History of engineering & technology KW - Materials science KW - thermoelectricity KW - skutterudites KW - crystal structure KW - powder x-ray diffraction KW - thermal conductivity KW - calcium cobaltite KW - TE performance KW - electrical properties KW - composite KW - redox tuning KW - thermoelectric materials KW - joining KW - skutterudite alloy KW - Co-Mo metallization layer KW - Seebeck coefficient KW - thin film KW - oxides KW - copper tin sulfide KW - Cu2SnS3 KW - CTS KW - thermal stability KW - chalcogenide KW - material production KW - porosity KW - porous thermoelectric materials KW - n/a UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133853098 AB - Thermoelectricity is a well-known phenomenon that enables the conversion of heat into electric energy without moving parts. Its exploitation has been widely considered to contribute to the increasing need for energy along with the concerns about the environmental impact of traditional fossil energy sources. In the last few years, significant improvements in the performance of thermoelectric materials have been achieved through chemical doping, solid solution formation, and nanoengineering approaches. Furthermore, the feasibility of flexible, stretchable, and conformable thermoelectric harvesters has been demonstrated and has attracted the interest of an audience from many different fields. However, the path for practical applications of thermoelectrics is still a long one. This Special Issue of Materials intends to bridge the gap between materials science and applications of thermoelectric materials. Many topics are welcome: new thermoelectric compounds; the correlation between material structure and thermoelectric properties; bulk thermoelectric ceramics, oxides, and chalcogenides; bulk thermoelectric alloys and intermetallics; organic and polymeric thermoelectrics; thermoelectric thin films, multilayers, and nanocomposites; theory and modeling; thermal transport and thermal conductivity; applications and devices based on thermoelectric materials; standardization and metrology; and more. ER -