High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures

Kanishka Biswas, Jiaqing He, Ivan D. Blum, Chun-I Wu, Timothy P. Hogan, David N. Seidman, Vinayak P. Dravid and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis ()
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Kanishka Biswas: Northwestern University
Jiaqing He: Northwestern University
Ivan D. Blum: Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Chun-I Wu: Michigan State University
Timothy P. Hogan: Michigan State University
David N. Seidman: Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Vinayak P. Dravid: Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis: Northwestern University

Nature, 2012, vol. 489, issue 7416, 414-418

Abstract: Controlling the structure of thermoelectric materials on all length scales (atomic, nanoscale and mesoscale) relevant for phonon scattering makes it possible to increase the dimensionless figure of merit to more than two, which could allow for the recovery of a significant fraction of waste heat with which to produce electricity.

Date: 2012
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