Thermoelectric Nanomaterials

Part I. Atomic-Scale Materials Design

1. Material Design Considerations Based on Thermoelectric Quality Factor
Heng Wang, Yanzhong Pei, Aaron D. LaLonde, G. Jeffery Snyder

2. Nano-Cage Structured Materials: Clathrates
Toshiro Takabatake

3. Layered Cobalt Oxides: Correlated Electrons for Thermoelectrics
Ichiro Terasaki

4. Strongly Correlated Intermetallics:
Martin Søndergaard, Simon Johnsen, Peijie Sun, Ye Sun, Simone Cenedese, Carlo Gatti, Frank Steglich, Bo Brummerstedt Iversen

5. The Peierls Distortion and Quasi-One-Dimensional Crystalline Materials of Indium Selenides
Jong-Soo Rhyee

6. Topological Insulators
Lukas Müchler, Binghai Yan, Frederick Casper, Stanislav Chadov, Claudia Felser

7. Higher Manganese Silicide,
Yuzuru Miyazaki, Yuta Kikuchi

8. Natural Superlattice Material: TiS-Based Misfit-Layer Compounds
C. L. Wan, Y. F. Wang, Y. E. Putri, K. Koumoto

Part II. Nanoscale Structure Design

9. Nanostructuring and Porosity in Anisotropic Thermoelectric Materials Prepared by Bottom-Up Processing
Anuja Datta, George S. Nolas

10. Severe Plastic Deformation, A Tool to Enhance Thermoelectric Performance
Gerda Rogl, Peter Rogl, Ernst Bauer, Michael Zehetbauer

11. Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials
Weishu Liu, Zhifeng Ren, Gang Chen

12. 3D Superlattice Ceramics of
Ruizhi Zhang, Kunihito Koumoto

13. Nanostructuring of Conventional Thermoelectric Materials
Kyu Hyoung Lee, Sang Il Kim, Kyunghan Ahn, Sang Mock Lee, Sung Wng Kim

Part III. Applications of Thermoelectrics

14. A Linear Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics Approach to Optimization of Thermoelectric Devices
Christophe Goupil, Henni Ouerdane, Yann Apertet, Aurélie Michot, Adel Abbout

15. Naturally Nanostructured Thermoelectric Oxides
Ryoji Funahashi, Atsuko Kosuga

16. Solar TE Converter Applications
Anke Weidenkaff, Matthias Trottmann, Petr Tomeš, Clemens Suter, Aldo Steinfeld, Angelika Veziridis

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