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Recent development and application of thermoelectric generator and cooler
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In this article, the basic concepts of the thermoelectric and discusses its recent material researches about the figure of merit are discussed, and the recent applications of the thermal generator, including the structure optimization, low temperature recovery, the heat resource and its application area.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2015-04-01. It has received 563 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermoelectric cooling & Thermoelectric generator.read more
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Review on battery thermal management system for electric vehicles
Jaewan Kim,Jinwoo Oh,Hoseong Lee +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, an effective battery thermal management system solution is discussed in terms of the maximum temperature and maximum temperature difference of the batteries and an effective BTMS that complements the disadvantages of each system is discussed.
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Smart Textiles for Electricity Generation.
TL;DR: With worldwide efforts, innovations in chemistry and materials elaborated in this review will push forward the frontiers of smart textiles, which will soon revolutionize the authors' lives in the era of Internet of Things.
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Flexible Thermoelectric Materials and Generators: Challenges and Innovations.
Yuan Wang,Lei Yang,Xiaolei Shi,Xun Shi,Lidong Chen,Matthew S. Dargusch,Jin Zou,Zhigang Chen,Zhigang Chen +8 more
TL;DR: The state-of-the-art in the development of flexible thermoelectric materials and devices is summarized, including exploring the fundamentals behind the performance of flexible temperature-conversion efficiency and properties by relating materials chemistry and physics to properties.
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A comprehensive review of thermoelectric technology: materials, applications, modelling and performance improvement
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of thermoelectric (TE) technology encompassing the materials, applications, modelling techniques and performance improvement is carried out, including output power conditioning techniques.
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Energy Harvesters for Wearable and Stretchable Electronics: From Flexibility to Stretchability
TL;DR: The development of highly flexible and stretchable (stretchability >15% strain) energy harvesters is reviewed with emphasis on strategies of materials synthesis, device fabrication, and integration schemes for enhanced flexibility and stretchability.
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Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit
TL;DR: Th thin-film thermoelectric materials are reported that demonstrate a significant enhancement in ZT at 300 K, compared to state-of-the-art bulk Bi2Te3 alloys, and the combination of performance, power density and speed achieved in these materials will lead to diverse technological applications.
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CRC Handbook of Thermoelectrics
TL;DR: In this article, Rowe et al. proposed a method for reducing the thermal conductivity of a thermoelectric generator by reducing the carrier concentration of the generator, which was shown to improve the generator's performance.
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Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals
Li-Dong Zhao,Shih Han Lo,Yongsheng Zhang,Hui Sun,Gangjian Tan,Ctirad Uher,Chris Wolverton,Vinayak P. Dravid,Mercouri G. Kanatzidis +8 more
TL;DR: An unprecedented ZT of 2.6 ± 0.3 at 923 K is reported in SnSe single crystals measured along the b axis of the room-temperature orthorhombic unit cell, which highlights alternative strategies to nanostructuring for achieving high thermoelectric performance.
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Cubic AgPbmSbTe2+m: Bulk Thermoelectric Materials with High Figure of Merit
Kuei Fang Hsu,Sim Loo,Fu Guo,Wei Chen,Jeffrey S. Dyck,Ctirad Uher,Timothy P. Hogan,Efstathios K. Polychroniadis,Mercouri G. Kanatzidis +8 more
TL;DR: In the temperature range 600 to 900 kelvin, the AgPbmSbTe2+m material is expected to outperform all reported bulk thermoelectrics, thereby earmarking it as a material system for potential use in efficient thermoeLECTric power generation from heat sources.
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Engineered doping of organic semiconductors for enhanced thermoelectric efficiency
TL;DR: Reducing dopant volume is found to be as important as optimizing carrier concentration when maximizing ZT in OSCs, and this stands in sharp contrast to ISCs, for which these parameters have trade-offs.