Recent progress in thermoelectric materials

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 2073-2091

  Han, Chao ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Dou, Shixue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy conversion; Functional materials; Nanostructures; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901432575     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0237-2     Document Type: Review

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