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Thermoelectric generators and their applications: Progress, challenges, and future prospects |
Nassima Radouane1,2,† |
1 UDSMM(EA 4476), MREI-1, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque 59140, France; 2 Laboratory of Composite Materials, Polymers and Environment, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Mohammed V, Agdal Rabat Avenue Ibn Battouta P. B. 1014, Morocco |
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Abstract Our community currently deals with issues such as rising electricity costs, pollution, and global warming. Scientists work to improve energy harvesting-based power generators in order to reduce their impacts. The Seebeck effect has been used to illustrate the capacity of thermoelectric generators (TEGs) to directly convert thermal energy to electrical energy. They are also ecologically beneficial since they do not include chemical products, function quietly because they lack mechanical structures and/or moving components, and may be built using different fabrication technologies such as three-dimentional (3D) printing, silicon technology, and screen printing, etc. TEGs are also position-independent and have a long operational lifetime. TEGs can be integrated into bulk and flexible devices. This review gives further investigation of TEGs, beginning with a full discussion of their operating principle, kinds, materials utilized, figure of merit, and improvement approaches, which include various thermoelectric material arrangements and utilised technologies. This paper also discusses the use of TEGs in a variety of disciplines such as automobile and biomedical.
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Received: 05 August 2022
Revised: 30 October 2022
Accepted manuscript online: 25 November 2022
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PACS:
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73.50.Lw
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(Thermoelectric effects)
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85.80.Fi
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(Thermoelectric devices)
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Corresponding Authors:
Nassima Radouane
E-mail: nassima.radouane@univ-littoral.fr
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Cite this article:
Nassima Radouane Thermoelectric generators and their applications: Progress, challenges, and future prospects 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 057307
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