Assessing the Thermoelectric Properties of Sintered Compounds via High-Throughput<i>Ab-Initio</i>Calculations

Building a new physical concept into a high-throughput quantum-mechanical computational approach, researchers from Duke University and the Laboratory for Innovation in Technology for New Energy (LITEN) of CEA in France predict a large set of sintered inorganic compounds as good candidates for high-efficiency thermoelectric materials.