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Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advances in thermoelectric materials research, including high-performance nanostructured bulk alloys, high-temperature figure of merit, and applications in energy harvesting and waste heat recovery.

  • Thermoelectric
  • Materials
  • Performance
  • Nanostructured
  • High-Temperature
  • Figure of Merit
  • Bulk Alloys
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Electrical Transport
  • Waste Heat Recovery
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

Which countries lead Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.2k and 810 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.2k works
  2. 2 India 810 works
  3. 3 United States 545 works
  4. 4 Japan 411 works
  5. 5 South Korea 329 works
  6. 6 Germany 182 works
  7. 7 Russia 160 works
  8. 8 France 156 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 147 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 130 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 52.8%India: 13.3%United States: 9.0%Japan: 6.8%6 others listed: 18.2%53%largest
China3,209 · 52.8%India810 · 13.3%United States545 · 9.0%Japan411 · 6.8%6 others listed1,104 · 18.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices research, followed by Wuhan University of Technology and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 266 works
  2. 2 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 87 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 80 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 67 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 62 works
  6. 6 Shenzhen UniversityChina 59 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 57 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 55 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 54 works
  10. 10 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and John P. Perdew.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  4. 4 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  5. 5 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  6. 6 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  9. 9 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  10. 10 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices?

The most cited paper in Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices is "Complex thermoelectric materials" (Gerald Jeffrey Snyder, Eric S. Toberer, 2008), with 11,452 citations. Next come "Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials" (7,275) and "Influence of the exchange screening parameter on the performance of screened hybrid functionals" (7,125).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Complex thermoelectric materials Gerald Jeffrey Snyder, Eric S. Toberer · Nature Materials 25 Jan 2008 11,452
2 Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials Jonathan N. Coleman et al. · Science Open access 3 Feb 2011 7,275
3 Influence of the exchange screening parameter on the performance of screened hybrid functionals Aliaksandr V. Krukau, Oleg A. Vydrov, Artur F. Izmaylov et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics 13 Dec 2006 7,125
4 Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems Lon E. Bell · Science 12 Sep 2008 6,108
5 High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys Bed Poudel, Qing Li Hao, Yi Ma et al. · Science 20 Mar 2008 5,616
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Where is Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 542 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 239 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 235 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 156 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 144 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 138 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 132 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 114 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 104 works
  10. 10 TsukubaJapan 103 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices?

Among universities, judged by research, Queensland University of Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology and Shenzhen University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 23.68%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Queensland Universit…Southern University …Shenzhen UniversityWuhan University of …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 78.755.7%10.2×24 +545.4%
2Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.224.4%10.4×38 +36.5%
3Shenzhen UniversityChina 62.321.4%11.5×59 +19.7%
4Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 58.29.2%15.5×87 +54.1%
5Beihang UniversityChina 57.824.8%5.7×44 +29.8%
6Donghua UniversityChina 56.723.1%13.4×34 +122.3%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 56.615.7%4.2×67 +32.2%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 55.717.8%5.4×62 +70.5%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55.015.4%4.8×54 +25.1%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 54.529.3%3.2×27 +2.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, country by country

Is Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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