Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: We start this concise review from the exciting history of thermoelectricity in which such names as Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Thomas Seebeck, Walter Nernst, William Tompson, Georg Wilhelm Hegel and many others have been involved. We then move on to the main concepts in description of thermoelectric phenomena, discuss how to increase their magnitude and efficiency, formulate the requirements for modern thermoelectric materials and present thermoelectric applications that are already available.
Institutions: University of Rome Tor Vergata, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay - Etablissement de Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3154166096