Heat management and waste heat recovery via high-efficiency thermoelectric (TE) converters are key elements to enable self-powered device applications.
The rise of the TE era is presently limited by a challenging trade-off regarding materials:
very high, tunable electrical conductivity, σ, and Seebeck coefficient, S, and very low
thermal conductivity, k. NT-ROBOT aims at establishing new strategies to control the TE parameters in semiconductor nanowires (NWs)-based systems, developing technologies for robotic applications, i.e., semiconductor-based nanostructured TE platforms for heat management in selfdriving humanoid cognitive robots.