Nanoscale Thermoelectric Materials: Advanced Synthesis and Characterisation Approaches
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 August 2025 | Viewed by 831
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electron microscopy; energy/environmental nanomaterials; catalysis; semiconductors; thermoelectrics; electron crystallography; EM image processing & simulation; electron spectroscopy-channeling; solar cells; CCUS nanomaterials
Interests: synthesis of energy-related materials; thermoelectric materials; nanomaterials and nanocomposites; powder technology - ball milling; consolidation techniques; additive manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The amount of energy nowadays converted into waste heat accounts for a substantial percentage and is predicted to reach more than 50% of the total energy input globally. Utilization, even partly of such enormous energy amount is of imminent importance, considering the energy issues on a global scale and environmental effects. In this aspect, thermoelectric (TEs) materials and devices have been widely exploited in the last decades to address this energy conversion and harvesting challenging issue. Among the most promising solutions for increasing their efficiency, nanostructuring approaches have been widely exploited, aiming predominately into decreasing their thermal conductivity, whereas preserving a high Seebeck coefficient and low electrical resistivity at the same time.
The collection of scientific articles in this Special Issue of Nanomaterials aims to address such nanostructuring approaches in advanced TEs. Research topics may include (though not limited to) novel synthesis routes, involving environmentally friendly starting materials or sustainability concepts, advanced characterisation approaches in the micro-, nano- and atomic scales by typical laboratory equipment or large scale facilities alike and detailed TE property measurements. The Special Issue would comprise of high impact contributions in the form of research papers, reviews and/or short communications of emerging topics in TEs research.
Dr. Andreas Delimitis
Prof. Dr. Theodora Kyratsi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermoelectrics (TEs)
- nanomaterials
- electron microscopy
- nanostructural properties
- phase separation
- doping
- TE properties
- thermal conductivity
- figure of merit
- environmental sustainability
- energy harvesting
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