A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in India and one in China has found a way to improve the performance of a certain thermoelectric material by partially substituting selective atoms with certain cations. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their process and how well their material worked when tested. Yu Liu and Maria Ibáñez with the Institute of Science and Technology Austria have published a Perspectives piece in the same journal issue outlining prior work involved in attempting to improve the performance of thermoelectric materials and describe the work done by the team in this new effort.
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Source: Phys.org