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Recent developments in thermoelectricity related to the realization of ultra-low thermal conductivity nanostructured materials and the identification of a large variety of potentially high performance materials and their alloys, have led to large improvements in ZT across materials and temperatures.
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Neophytou, N. (2020). Summary and Concluding Remarks. In: Theory and Simulation Methods for Electronic and Phononic Transport in Thermoelectric Materials. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38681-8_5
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