ABSTRACT

Environmental and economic concerns have significantly spurred the search for novel, high-performance thermoelectric materials for energy conversion in small-scale power generation and refrigeration devices. This quest has been mainly fueled by the introduction of new designs and the synthesis of new materials. In fact, good thermoelectric material

chapter 1|72 pages

Basic Notions

chapter 2|38 pages

Fundamental Aspects

chapter 3|76 pages

The Structural Complexity Approach

chapter 4|48 pages

The Electronic Structure Role

chapter 5|46 pages

Beyond Periodic Order

chapter 6|36 pages

Organic Semiconductors and Polymers