Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials
- 1st Edition - June 3, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Ranjan Kumar, Ranber Singh
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 9 8 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 4 3 9 - 9
Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials reviews emerging thermoelectric materials, including skutterudites, clathrates, and half-Heusler alloys. In addition,… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials reviews emerging thermoelectric materials, including skutterudites, clathrates, and half-Heusler alloys. In addition, the book discusses a number of oxides and silicides that have promising thermoelectric properties. Because 2D materials with high figures of merit have emerged as promising candidates for thermoelectric applications, this book presents an updated introduction to the field of thermoelectric materials, including recent advances in materials synthesis, device modeling, and design. Finally, the book addresses the theoretical difficulties and methodologies of computing the thermoelectric properties of materials that can be used to understand and predict highly efficient thermoelectric materials. This book is a key reference for materials scientists, physicists, and engineers in energy.
- Reviews the most relevant, emerging thermoelectric materials, including 2D materials, skutterudites, clathrates and half-Heusler alloys
- Focuses on how electronic structure engineering can lead to improved materials performance for thermoelectric energy conversion applications
- Includes the latest advances in the synthesis, modeling and design of advanced thermoelectric materials
Materials Scientists and Engineers. Physicists; Engineers in Energy
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- 1: Introduction and brief history of thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: Historical background
- 1.3: Thermoelectric phenomenon and effects
- 1.4: Brief history of thermoelectric materials
- 1.5: Efficiency of thermoelectric materials and figure of merit
- 1.6: Current energy scenario and thermoelectricity
- 2: Theory of energy conversion between heat and electricity
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Electronic transport and its relation to electronic structure
- 2.3: Heat transport through phonons and its relation to phonon band structure
- 2.4: Phonon calculation methods
- 2.5: Thermoelectric transport in a nutshell
- 2.6: Computational approaches based on DFT
- 2.7: The theoretical aspects toward prediction of new thermoelectric materials
- 2.8: Theoretical and computational investigations of thermoelectric properties: A short review
- 3: Measurement of thermoelectric properties
- Abstract
- 3.1: Measurement principles of electrical conductivity and thermopower
- 3.2: Methods of thermal conductivity measurement in bulk materials
- 3.3: Methods of thermal conductivity measurement in thin films
- 3.4: Methods for electrical conductivity measurement
- 3.5: Methods for thermopower measurement
- 3.6: Test criteria and errors
- 4: Synthesis of thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: Melting methods
- 4.3: Ball milling
- 4.4: Solution synthesis
- 4.5: Liquid exfoliation of layered thermoelectric materials
- 4.6: High-pressure synthesis techniques
- 4.7: Electrodeposition
- 4.8: Chemical vapor deposition
- 4.9: Summary
- 5: Design of thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Efficiency hurdles
- 5.3: Possible routes for high ZT
- 5.4: Computational design
- 5.5: 2D thermoelectrics
- 5.6: Future prospects
- 6: Strategies for improving efficiency of thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 6.1: Introduction
- 6.2: Strategies for improving thermoelectric efficiency
- 6.3: Conclusive remarks and future outlook
- 7: Traditional thermoelectric materials and challenges
- Abstract
- 7.1: Traditional thermoelectric materials
- 7.2: Conductivity and thermoelectric potential depending on carrier density
- 7.3: Challenges to enhance the thermopower and figure of merit
- 7.4: Doping of traditional thermoelectric materials
- 7.5: Effect of doping in traditional thermoelectric materials
- 7.6: Nanostructured traditional thermoelectric materials
- 8: Beyond 3D-traditional materials thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 8.1: Introduction
- 8.2: Oxides-based thermoelectric materials
- 8.3: Zintl phase-based thermoelectric materials
- 8.4: Hybrid thermoelectric materials
- 8.5: Metal chalcogenides-based thermoelectric materials
- 8.6: Skutterudite antimonides-based thermoelectric materials
- 8.7: Half-Heusler compounds
- 8.8: Manganese silicide
- 9: Organic semiconductors and polymers
- Abstract
- 9.1: Organic semiconductors
- 9.2: Conjugated polymers
- 9.3: Thermoelectric plastics
- 9.4: Organic-inorganic hybrid materials
- 9.5: Doping in organic semiconductors
- 9.6: Organic-inorganic superlattice structures
- 9.7: n-Type organic thermoelectric polymers
- 9.8: Effect of molecule structure on TE properties
- 9.9: Carrier density and mobility test
- 9.10: Challenge in organic semiconductor thermoelectric materials
- 10: Two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 10.1: Introduction
- 10.2: Effect of dimensional confinement on thermoelectric materials
- 10.3: Thermoelectric properties of two- dimensional (2D) structures
- 10.4: Thermoelectric properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials
- 10.5: Summary and future prospective
- 11: Nanostructured thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 11.1: Low-dimensionality in thermoelectric materials
- 11.2: Nanocomposite thermoelectric materials
- 11.3: Graphene-based nanocomposite thermoelectric materials
- 11.4: Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based nanocomposite thermoelectric materials
- 11.5: Nanocaged thermoelectric materials (Skutterudites and Clathrates)
- 11.6: Nanowire thermoelectric materials
- 11.7: Quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) organic thermoelectric materials
- 11.8: Conclusion
- 12: Advances in the applications of thermoelectric materials
- Abstract
- 12.1: Introduction
- 12.2: Thermocouple and TE modules
- 12.3: Power and efficiency calculation of a TE device
- 12.4: Advances in the assembly and scalable manufacturing of TE materials
- 12.5: Nanostructuring of TE materials
- 12.6: TE power generators
- 12.7: Peltier cooler
- 12.8: Advantages and disadvantages of TE devices over the conventional mechanical devices
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 3, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 356
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128199848
- eBook ISBN: 9780128204399
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Ranjan Kumar
Dr. Ranjan Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Physics at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - on leave from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Kumar’s field of specialization is theoretical condensed matter physics, and his research interests include: Fullerenes and carbon materials, Heusler alloys for spintronic applications, dilute magnetic semiconductors, electronic and thermoelectric properties of materials, and superconductors.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Professor, Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, IndiaRS
Ranber Singh
Dr. Ranber Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Singh’s research interests include the theoretical study of nanostructured materials and other condensed matter systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Chandigarh, India.Read Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials on ScienceDirect