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Thermoelectric cooling materials by Mao, Jun, Chen, Gang, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Solid-state thermoelectric devices can directly convert electricity into cooling or enable heat pumping through the Peltier effect. The commercialization of…”
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Recent progress of half-Heusler for moderate temperature thermoelectric applications by Chen, Shuo, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Half-Heusler thermoelectric materials have been attracting extensive research interest over the last two decades. In this mini-review article, we summarize the…”
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Size effect in thermoelectric materials by Mao, Jun, Liu, Zihang, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Thermoelectric applications have attracted increasing interest recently due to its capability of converting waste heat into electricity without hazardous…”
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Towards tellurium-free thermoelectric modules for power generation from low-grade heat by Ying, Pingjun, He, Ran, Mao, Jun, Zhang, Qihao, Reith, Heiko, Sui, Jiehe, Ren, Zhifeng, Nielsch, Kornelius, Schierning, Gabi

“…Thermoelectric technology converts heat into electricity directly and is a promising source of clean electricity. Commercial thermoelectric modules have relied…”
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Realizing high conversion efficiency of Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectric materials by Zhu, Qing, Song, Shaowei, Zhu, Hangtian, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectric materials have drawn much attention in the last couple of years due to their high peak figure of merit, ZT. However, there have yet…”
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Routes for high-performance thermoelectric materials by Zhou, Xiaoyuan, Yan, Yanci, Lu, Xu, Zhu, Hangtian, Han, Xiaodong, Chen, Gang, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Thermoelectric materials can be used to directly convert heat into electricity. Superior thermoelectric performance has been achieved either via reducing the…”
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High thermoelectric cooling performance of n-type Mg3Bi2-based materials by Mao, Jun, Zhu, Hangtian, Ding, Zhiwei, Liu, Zihang, Gamage, Geethal Amila, Chen, Gang, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Thrifty thermoelectric coolingCurrently available thermoelectric devices for cooling rely on expensive bismuth telluride. Mao et al. systematically developed a…”
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Multiferroic materials and magnetoelectric physics: symmetry, entanglement, excitation, and topology by Dong, Shuai, Liu, Jun-Ming, Cheong, Sang-Wook, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Multiferroics are those materials with more than one ferroic order, and magnetoelectricity refers to the mutual coupling between magnetism (spins and/or…”
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Mini review on photocatalysis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and their solar applications by Lan, Yucheng, Lu, Yalin, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Titanium dioxide is a wide band-gap semiconductor that can be excited to produce electron–hole pairs when irradiated with light. Such photo-induced…”
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Importance of high power factor in thermoelectric materials for power generation application: A perspective by Liu, Weishu, Kim, Hee Seok, Jie, Qing, Ren, Zhifeng

“…[Display omitted] The figure of merit (ZT) has been used for more than half a century to guide the research of thermoelectric materials. In this perspective…”
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Discovery of TaFeSb-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance by Zhu, Hangtian, Mao, Jun, Li, Yuwei, Sun, Jifeng, Wang, Yumei, Zhu, Qing, Li, Guannan, Song, Qichen, Zhou, Jiawei, Fu, Yuhao, He, Ran, Tong, Tian, Liu, Zihang, Ren, Wuyang, You, Li, Wang, Zhiming, Luo, Jun, Sotnikov, Andrei, Bao, Jiming, Nielsch, Kornelius, Chen, Gang, Singh, David J., Ren, Zhifeng

“…Discovery of thermoelectric materials has long been realized by the Edisonian trial and error approach. However, recent progress in theoretical calculations,…”
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Recent advances in flexible thermoelectrics by Shang, Hongjing, Gu, Hongwei, Ding, Fazhu, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Recently, flexible thermoelectric (TE) materials and devices have attracted extensive attention due to their capability to convert heat into electricity…”
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Non-noble metal-nitride based electrocatalysts for high-performance alkaline seawater electrolysis by Yu, Luo, Zhu, Qing, Song, Shaowei, McElhenny, Brian, Wang, Dezhi, Wu, Chunzheng, Qin, Zhaojun, Bao, Jiming, Yu, Ying, Chen, Shuo, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Seawater is one of the most abundant natural resources on our planet. Electrolysis of seawater is not only a promising approach to produce clean hydrogen…”
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High-performance bifunctional porous non-noble metal phosphide catalyst for overall water splitting by Yu, Fang, Zhou, Haiqing, Huang, Yufeng, Sun, Jingying, Qin, Fan, Bao, Jiming, Goddard, William A., Chen, Shuo, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Water electrolysis is an advanced energy conversion technology to produce hydrogen as a clean and sustainable chemical fuel, which potentially stores the…”
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Highly active catalyst derived from a 3D foam of Fe(PO₃)₂/Ni₂P for extremely efficient water oxidation by Zhou, Haiqing, Yu, Fang, Sun, Jingying, He, Ran, Chen, Shuo, Chu, Ching-Wu, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Commercial hydrogen production by electrocatalytic water splitting will benefit from the realization of more efficient and less expensive catalysts compared…”
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Highly stretchable and transparent nanomesh electrodes made by grain boundary lithography by Guo, Chuan Fei, Sun, Tianyi, Liu, Qihan, Suo, Zhigang, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Foldable photoelectronics and muscle-like transducers require highly stretchable and transparent electrical conductors. Some conducting oxides are transparent,…”
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Significant Role of Mg Stoichiometry in Designing High Thermoelectric Performance for Mg3(Sb,Bi)2‑Based n‑Type Zintls by Shuai, Jing, Ge, Binghui, Mao, Jun, Song, Shaowei, Wang, Yumei, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Complex structures with versatile chemistry provide considerable chemical tunability of the transport properties. Good thermoelectric materials are generally…”
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Relationship between thermoelectric figure of merit and energy conversion efficiency by Kim, Hee Seok, Weishu Liu, Gang Chen, Ching-Wu Chu, Zhifeng Ren

“…The formula for maximum efficiency ( η ₘₐₓ) of heat conversion into electricity by a thermoelectric device in terms of the dimensionless figure of merit…”
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Mobility enhancement in heavily doped semiconductors via electron cloaking by Zhou, Jiawei, Zhu, Hangtian, Song, Qichen, Ding, Zhiwei, Mao, Jun, Ren, Zhifeng, Chen, Gang

“…Doping is central for solid-state devices from transistors to thermoelectric energy converters. The interaction between electrons and dopants plays a pivotal…”
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Boron-modified cobalt iron layered double hydroxides for high efficiency seawater oxidation by Wu, Libo, Yu, Luo, Zhu, Qiancheng, McElhenny, Brian, Zhang, Fanghao, Wu, Chunzheng, Xing, Xinxin, Bao, Jiming, Chen, Shuo, Ren, Zhifeng

“…Developing efficient and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts that can work well at high current densities for seawater electrolysis is desirable…”
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