Recent progress in thermoelectric materials

作     者：Chao Han Zhen Li Shixue Dou 

作者机构：Institute for Superconducting and Electronic MaterialsSquires WayUniversity of WollongongWollongong 2500NSWAustralia 

出 版 物：《Chinese Science Bulletin》 (科学通报(英文版))

年 卷 期：2014年第59卷第18期

页      面：2073-2091页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：support from Australian Research Council (ARC) through the Discovery Project DP130102699 support from the Baosteel-Australia Research Centre (BARC) through the Project BA110011 ARC through the Linkage Project LP120200289 

主　　题：热电材料 Seebeck系数 直接转换 能源问题 转换效率 纳米材料 热导率 TE 

摘      要：Direct conversion of heat into electricity through advanced thermoelectric(TE)materials has been one of the most attractive solutions to the severe environmental and energy issues facing *** recent years,great progress has been made in improving their dimensionless figure of merit(ZT),which determines the conversion efficiency of TE *** is related to three‘‘interlocked’’factors—the Seebeck coefficient,electrical conductivity,and thermal *** three factors are interdependent in bulk TE materials,and altering one changes the other *** difficulty in simultaneously optimizing them caused TE research to stagnate,until great reductions in thermal conductivity were both theoretically and experimentally proven in nanomaterials in *** this review,we first introduce some TE fundamentals and then review the most recently improvements in ZT in different kinds of inorganic and organic TE materials,which is followed by an investigation of the outlook for new directions in TE technology.