Environmentally Friendly Thermoelectric Materials: High Performance from Inorganic Components with Low Toxicity and Abundance in the Earth

This review article gives an overview of the recent research directions in eco-friendly, non-toxic, and earth-abundant thermoelectric materials. It covers materials such as sulfides, tetrahedrites, oxides, silicides, copper iodine, Half-Heusler intermetallic compounds, nitrides, other environmentally friendly thermoelectrics. In all cases, their history, structure, general characteristics, properties, synthesis methods, related applications are compiled. is also shown that they starting to be excellent alternative for producing cost-effective, sustainable, non-toxic generators. does not try include possible materials, but show there high zT