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Frontispiece: Soft Chemistry, Coloring and Polytypism in Filled Tetrahedral Semiconductors: Toward Enhanced Thermoelectric and Battery Materials
Author(s) -
White Miles A.,
MedinaGonzalez Alan M.,
Vela Javier
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201881562
Subject(s) - thermoelectric materials , materials science , semiconductor , photovoltaics , nanotechnology , battery (electricity) , ideal (ethics) , tetrahedron , thermoelectric effect , anode , engineering physics , optoelectronics , crystallography , photovoltaic system , chemistry , physics , electrode , composite material , electrical engineering , engineering , thermal conductivity , philosophy , epistemology , quantum mechanics , power (physics) , thermodynamics
Filled tetrahedral semiconductors are a rich family of compounds with tunable electronic structure, making them ideal for applications in thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and battery anodes. Furthermore, these materials crystallize in a plethora of related structures that are very close in energy, giving rise to polytypism through the manipulation of synthetic parameters. This Minireview highlights recent advances in the solution‐phase synthesis and nanostructuring of these materials, see J. Vela et al. on page 3650 ff.