This volume: Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science of Thermoelectric Materials: Beyond Bismuth Telluride contains a series of topical articles that were presented as invited lectures by prominent leaders in this field at a workshop held in Traverse City, Michigan in the summer of 2002. These articles place the state of the art, regarding design principles, candidate materials and systems and current advances in context and should serve as a useful source of insights into this field for both beginning students and practitioners alike.

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svolume.Theycoverawide range of subjects, starting from synthesis (based on different strategies) and characterizationofnovel materials to acareful studyoftheir transport properties and electronicstructure.Topicsaddressingtheissueofmakingnew materialsare: synthetic search for new materials (di Salvo et aI.) and synthetic strategies based on phase homologies (Kanatzidis). The different classes of materials covered are: bismuth nanowires (Dresselhausetal.), unconventional high-temperaturethermoelectrics, boron carbides (Aselage et aI.), layered cobalt oxides (Fujii et aI.), early transition metal antimonides(KleinkeetaI.),skutterudites(Uher),andclathratethermoelectrics(Nolas).

Zusammenfassung
Contains a series of topical articles that were presented as invited lectures by prominent leaders in this field at a workshop held in Traverse City, Michigan in 2002. These articles deal with design principles, candidate materials and systems and advances in context, and are useful for both beginning students and practitioners alike.

Inhalt
Overview of Bismuth Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications.- The Synthetic Search for Better Thermoelectrics.- New Bulk Materials for Thermoelectric Applications: Synthetic Strategies Based on Phase Homologies.- Boron Carbides: Unconventional High-Temperature Thermoelectrics.- Block-Layer Concept for the Layered Cobalt Oxide: A Design for Thermoelectric Oxides.- Thermoelectric Properties of Early Transition Metal Antimonides.- Clathrate Thermoelectrics.- Structure-Property Relations in Skutterudites.- Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices.- Thermal Conduction in CoSb3-Based Skutterudites.- Thermoelectric Transport in Bismuth Nanowires: Experimental Results.- Pressure Tuning of Thermoelectric Materials.- Thermoelectrics with Thermionic Boundary Conditions.- Electronic Structure of Complex Bismuth Chaleogenide Systems.- Toward a First-Principles Determination of Transport Coefficients.- Can Theory Help in the Search for Better Thermoelectric Materials?.- Participants.