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Roadmap on thermoelectricity.

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  • 1. DCCI, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genova, Via Dodecaneso 31, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
      Authors
    • Artini C 1
    • Pani M 1
    (2 authors)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Pisa, Via Caruso 16, I-56122 Pisa, Italy.
      Authors
    • Pennelli G 2
    • Dimaggio E 2
    (2 authors)
  • 3. CNR-ISMN, v. Gobetti 101, I-40129, Bologna, Italy.
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    • Graziosi P 3, 4
    (1 author)
  • 4. University of Warwick, School of Engineering, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
      Authors
    • Graziosi P 3, 4
    • Li Z 4
    • Neophytou N 4
    (3 authors)
  • 5. Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria, I-09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy.
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    • Melis C 5
    • Colombo L 5
    (2 authors)
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Nanotechnology, 09 May 2023, 34(29)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/acca88 PMID: 37019100 

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Abstract 

The increasing energy demand and the ever more pressing need for clean technologies of energy conversion pose one of the most urgent and complicated issues of our age. Thermoelectricity, namely the direct conversion of waste heat into electricity, is a promising technique based on a long-standing physical phenomenon, which still has not fully developed its potential, mainly due to the low efficiency of the process. In order to improve the thermoelectric performance, a huge effort is being made by physicists, materials scientists and engineers, with the primary aims of better understanding the fundamental issues ruling the improvement of the thermoelectric figure of merit, and finally building the most efficient thermoelectric devices. In this Roadmap an overview is given about the most recent experimental and computational results obtained within the Italian research community on the optimization of composition and morphology of some thermoelectric materials, as well as on the design of thermoelectric and hybrid thermoelectric/photovoltaic devices.

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H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies (1)

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Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico

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