1 Introduction and brief history of thermoelectric materials 1 Anuradha Saini, Rajesh Kumar, and Ranjan Kumar 2 Theory of energy conversion between heat and electricity  Shivprasad S. Shastri and Sudhir K. Pandey 3 Measurement of thermoelectric properties  S.K. Tripathi and Sukhdeep Singh 4 Synthesis of thermoelectric materials  Min Hong, Jin Zou, and Zhi-Gang Chen 5 Design of thermoelectric materials  Manoj K. Yadav and Biplab Sanyal 6 Strategies for improving efficiency of thermoelectric materials  Prafulla K. Jha 7 Traditional thermoelectric materials and challenges  Kulwinder Kaur, Enamullah, Shakeel Ahmad Khanday, Jaspal Singh, and Shobhna Dhiman 8 Beyond 3D-traditional materials thermoelectric materials  Manish K. Kashyap and Renu Singla 9 Organic semiconductors and polymers  S.K. Tripathi and Ravneet Kaur 10 Two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials  Ajay K. Kushwaha, Hemen Kalita, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj, and Rajesh Ghosh 11 Nanostructured thermoelectric materials  Khalid Bin Masood, Neha Jain, Pushpendra Kumar, Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, and Jai Singh 12 Advances in the applications of thermoelectric materials Ranber Singh

Reviews the most relevant, emerging thermoelectric materials, including 2D materials, skutterudites, clathrates and half-Heusler alloys Focuses on how electronic structure engineering can lead to improved materials performance for thermoelectric energy conversion applications Includes the latest advances in the synthesis, modeling and design of advanced thermoelectric materials