Thermoelectric Nanomaterials - Materials Design and Applications

Presently, there is an intense race throughout the world to develop good enough thermoelectric materials which can be used in wide scale applications. This book focuses comprehensively on very recent up-to-date breakthroughs in thermoelectrics utilizing nanomaterials and methods based in nanoscience. Importantly, it provides the readers with methodology and concepts utilizing atomic scale and nanoscale materials design (such as superlattice structuring, atomic network structuring and properties control, electron correlation design, low dimensionality, nanostructuring, etc.). Furthermore, also indicates the applications of thermoelectrics expected for the large emerging energy market. This book has a wide appeal and application value for anyone being interested in state-of-the-art thermoelectrics and/or actual viable applications in nanotechnology.

List of contents

Part 1: Atomic-Scale Materials Design.- Part 2: Nanoscale Structure Design.- Part 3: Applications of Nanomaterials.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kunihito Koumoto (Editor), Takao Mori (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2013
• EAN: 9783642375361
• ISBN: 978-3-642-37536-1
• No. of pages: 387
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 27 mm x 241 mm
• Weight: 778 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 387 p.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; B, The environment, Physics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Chemistry and Materials Science, Energy technology & engineering, Other manufacturing technologies, Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Nanostructures, Nanoscale science, Nanophysics, Nanoscience, Energy Efficiency, Microsystems and MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Structural engineering, Structural Materials, Applied and Technical Physics, Applied physics