This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52222209,11934007,and 52302262);the Science and Technology Innovation Committee Foundation of Shenzhen(Grant No.JCYJ20220530165000001);the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(Grant No.2021QNRC001);the Outstanding Talents Training Fund in Shenzhen(202108);the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan(Grant No.2023NSFSC0953).
Entropy engineering has emerged as an effective strategy for improving the figure-of-merit zT by decelerating the phonon transport while maintaining good electrical transport properties of thermoelectric materials.Her...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant nos.61971271,11904213,62271294);the Jinan City-School Integration Development Strategy Project(JNSX2021023);the Major Program of Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation(ZR2022ZD16);the Shandong Province Major Technological Innovation Project(2022CXGC010502,2022CXGC020507,2022CXGC020505);the Key Project of Department of Education of Guangdong Province(Grant no.2018KCXTD026);the Deanship of Scientific Research(DSR)at King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah(Grant no:KEP-MSc-70-130-42),supported by“Opening Foundation of Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application”.
Niobium telluride(NbTe_(2)),a kind of few-layer two-dimensional(2D)transition metal dichalcogenides(TMDs)material,has been theoretically predicted with nonlinear absorption properties and excellent optical response.He...
The Department of Science and Technology(DST)of the Government of India(project no.RP03530)and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY)have both offered financial assistance.The authors also thank Nanoscale Research Facility(NRF)for using different characterization techniques.Author A.K.Gautam is also grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR)for the senior research fellowship(SRF)Grant.
In the present study,we have synthesized Ag2Te nanoparticles using the hydrothermal method and showed significant improvement in the thermoelectric properties compared to the bulk Ag2Te sample.Ag2Te nanoparticles show...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFB0703603)。
Extremely low lattice thermal conductivity is always the pursuit of thermoelectric materials research.In this work,we reported an exceptional effect of Ag2S addition in MnTe,an emerging promising midtemperature thermo...
supported by the U.S.Department of Energy,Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences under award number DE-SC0014520;the EPIC facility of Northwestern University’s NUANCE Center,support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental(SHyNE)Resource(NSF ECCS-1542205);the MRSEC Program(NSF DMR-1720139)at the Materials Research Center;the International Institute for Nanotechnology(IIN);the Keck Foundation;the State of Illinois,through the IIN;the MatCI Facility which receives support from the MRSEC Program(NSF DMR-1720139)of the Materials Research Center at Northwestern University;supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No.DGE-1324585.
Alloys of Bi_(2)Te_(3) and Sb_(2)Te_(3) are the best performing p-type thermoelectrics near room temperature and have been the subject of extensive engineering efforts.Dramatic improvement is achieved by introducing d...