Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science of Thermoelectric Materials: Beyond Bismuth Telluride: Fundamental Materials Research

Overview of Bismuth Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications.- The Synthetic Search for Better Thermoelectrics.- New Bulk Materials for Thermoelectric Applications: Synthetic Strategies Based on Phase Homologies.- Boron Carbides: Unconventional High-Temperature Thermoelectrics.- Block-Layer Concept for the Layered Cobalt Oxide: A Design for Thermoelectric Oxides.- Thermoelectric Properties of Early Transition Metal Antimonides.- Clathrate Thermoelectrics.- Structure-Property Relations in Skutterudites.- Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices.- Thermal Conduction in CoSb3-Based Skutterudites.- Thermoelectric Transport in Bismuth Nanowires: Experimental Results.- Pressure Tuning of Thermoelectric Materials.- Thermoelectrics with Thermionic Boundary Conditions.- Electronic Structure of Complex Bismuth Chaleogenide Systems.- Toward a First-Principles Determination of Transport Coefficients.- Can Theory Help in the Search for Better Thermoelectric Materials?.- Participants.