Abstract

We start with an overview of the fascinating history of thermoelectricity, which included such famous scientists as Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, and even the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Then we move on to the basic concepts for describing thermoelectric phenomena and how, as our understanding of nature improves, thermoelectricity finds more and more applications. We formulate the requirements for the materials necessary for the wide practical use of thermoelectricity and will mention those that exist, and those that Nature has forgotten to create but will be discovered/invented by scientists. Finally, we enumerate several more significant applications of thermoelectricity.

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