Thermoelectric materials could play an important role in the clean energy transition, as they can produce electricity from sources of heat that would otherwise go to waste without generating additional greenhouse gases or requiring large up-front investment. But their promise has been slowed by the fact that most current thermoelectric materials don't efficiently produce enough power to be useful for many practical applications.
While a variety of approaches have been used to improve efficiency, a concept known as electronic band convergence has gained attention for its potential to improve thermoelectric performance."It is normally difficult to get high performance from thermoelectric materials because not all of the electronic bands in a material contribute," Ren said.
Ren described how it works like this: If a team of 10 people try to lift an object, the taller members will carry most of the load while the shorter members do not contribute as much. In band convergence, the goal is to make all the band team members more similar -- tall band members would be shorter, in this example, and short members taller -- so all can contribute to carrying the overall load.
The calculation method could be used for other multi-compound materials, too, allowing researchers to use this approach to create new thermoelectric materials. Once the proper parent compounds are identified, the calculation determines what ratio of each should be used in the final alloy.
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