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<p><b>Chong Rae Park</b> obtained his PhD at the University of Leeds in 1990 and currently works in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea. His research interests focus on the carbonaceous materials and their related composite materials, including carbon fibers, graphene, carbon nanotubes, porous carbons, super-lightweight composites, etc., which are mainly for solving the immediate energy and environmental issues. He is credited with more than a 180 SCI papers and 30 patents. Along with his academic and research activities, he has also served for both domestic and international academic communities, such as the Chair for the Korean Carbon Society and the Asian Association of Carbon Groups.

<p><b><i>Advanced Thermoelectric Materials</i> addresses the fundamental issues, the latest research & developments, and the future of thermoelectric materials.</b> <p>Thermoelectric materials offer a simple and environmentally-friendly solution to solve the global energy crisis and become very popular in the field of renewable energy conversion technologies. A thermoelectric device has the ability to convert the heat coming from the sun to electricity, not only for industrial sectors and automobiles, but for the human body as well. The performance of thermoelectric devices depends mostly on the type of materials used and their properties such as electrical conductivity, thermal stability, thermal conductivity, and the Seebeck coefficient. For a single material, full control of these parameters is very challenging. The existing thermoelectric materials display only ~5—20% conversion efficiency. However, various strategies like nanostructuring, alloying and doping, are being applied to further enhance the efficiency of materials. <p>Among the topics discussed in this groundbreaking book include: <ul> <li>Advanced thin film photo-thermal materials and applications</li> <li>Self-assembled nanostructured bulk Si as high-performance TE materials</li> <li>Thermoelectric Seebeck effect of disordered organic semiconductors</li> <li>Innovative approaches towards the synthesis of thermoelectric oxides Silicide thermoelectrics</li> <li>Advances on Mg2XIV-based thermoelectric materials</li> <li>Low-dimensional nanomaterials for thermoelectric detection of infrared and terahertz photons</li> <li>Percolation effects in semiconductor IV-VI – based solid solutions and thermoelectric materials</li> <li>Thermoelectric properties of granular carbon materials</li> <li>Thermoelectric properties and thermal stability of conducting polymer nanocomposites</li> </ul> <p><b>Audience</b> <p>Materials science and physics researchers and technologists both in academia and industry working on advanced thermoelectric materials; industrial sectors such as energy and the environment, fabricating and employing state-of-the-art techniques in various applications.

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