热电材料发电的商业化进展与前景展望

Development in Commercialization and Application Prospect of Thermoelectric Materials

摘要: 综述了热电材料作为绿色环保能源转换材料的商业化进展与应用前景. 阐述了商业化的热电材料热电性能指标要求，分析了提高热电性能的条件和理论上的局限性. 通过分析近20年提高热电性能的研究，总结了一些突破上述局限性的有效手段，提出了将来提高热电性能的一些有效方法. 预测了热电性能商业化的前景.

Abstract: The development in commercialization and the application prospect of thermoelectric materials as green energy material are reviewed in this paper. The parameters requirement of thermoelectric materials in application is discussed. And the upper limit of thermoelectric properties has been analyzed. Some effective routes to break the above-said limit have been advanced after analyzing the last two decades researches in thermoelectric materials. Finally, the application prospect of thermoelectric materials is forecasted.