Thermoelectric devices and materials articles within Nature

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• Article | 22 December 2021

  High-entropy polymer produces a giant electrocaloric effect at low fields

  A study reports and characterizes a high-entropy electrocaloric polymer that switches under low fields, and discusses its potential suitability for use in caloric heat pumps.

  • Xiaoshi Qian
  • , Donglin Han
  •  & Q. M. Zhang

• Article | 13 November 2019

  Thermoelectric performance of a metastable thin-film Heusler alloy

  A high intrinsic thermoelectric figure of merit is found for a metastable thin-film Fe₂V_0.8W_0.2Al Heusler alloy.

  • B. Hinterleitner
  • , I. Knapp
  •  & E. Bauer

• Letter | 21 May 2018

  Observation of anisotropic magneto-Peltier effect in nickel

  A ‘magneto-Peltier effect’ produces cooling or heating in a material without junctions, by forcing a change in angle between the current and magnetization in a single ferromagnetic nickel slab.

  • Ken-ichi Uchida
  • , Shunsuke Daimon
  •  & Eiji Saitoh

• Letter | 14 September 2017

  Superparamagnetic enhancement of thermoelectric performance

  By embedding superparamagnetic nanoparticles in a thermoelectric matrix, phonon and electron transport within the material can be controlled simultaneously at nanometre and mesoscopic length scales, thereby improving the thermoelectric performance of the material.

  • Wenyu Zhao
  • , Zhiyuan Liu
  •  & Jing Shi

• Brief Communications Arising | 02 November 2016

  Zhao et al. reply

  • Li-Dong Zhao
  • , Shih-Han Lo
  •  & Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

• Brief Communications Arising | 02 November 2016

  The intrinsic thermal conductivity of SnSe

  • Pai-Chun Wei
  • , S. Bhattacharya
  •  & A. M. Rao