**Meet the editor**

Dr. Patricia Aranguren completed her PhD degree focusing on thermoelectric generation applications from the Public University of Navarre (Spain) in 2015. Her research interests are heat transfer optimization and thermoelectricity. She is a recipient of the "Graduate Student Award" by the "International Thermoelectric Society" in recognition of her outstanding research trajectory in the

field of thermoelectrics. On two further occasions, she has been awarded the "Best Contribution Award" of the International Thermoelectric Society during the celebration of Annual International Conferences on Thermoelectrics. Until now, she has published 13 manuscripts in peer-reviewed international journals and 1 book chapter, and participated in 28 contributions presented at international conferences. She also serves as a reviewer of many international journals.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Advanced Thermoelectric Materials 1**

Chapter 2 **Thermoelectric Textile Materials 23** Qian Wu and Jinlian Hu

**and Non-Local Effects 39**

**Applications 63**

and Chuanle Zhou

Chapter 1 **Nanostructured Thermoelectric Chalcogenides 3**

José L. Martínez and José A. Alonso

Javier Gainza, Federico Serrano-Sánchez, Mouna Gharsallah, Manuel Funes, Félix Carrascoso, Norbert M. Nemes, Oscar J. Dura,

Chapter 3 **Thermoelectricity from Macro to Nanoscale: Wave Behaviour**

Rojas Guadarrama and Federico Vázquez Hurtado

Chapter 4 **Mechanical Properties of Thermoelectric Materials for Practical**

Chapter 5 **Introduction to (p × n)-Type Transverse Thermoelectrics 81**

Chapter 6 **Thermoelectric Devices: Influence of the Legs Geometry and**

Angel Fabian-Mijangos and Jaime Alvarez-Quintana

**Parasitic Contact Resistances on ZT 101**

Matthew Grayson, Qing Shao, Boya Cui, Yang Tang, Xueting Yan

**Section 2 Building Up the Devices: Material Properties, Modeling, Geometry and Assembly Optimization 61**

Gilad M. Guttmann and Yaniv Gelbstein

Aldo Figueroa Lara, Iván Rivera Islas, Víctor Hernández García, Jaziel
