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ArticleScience advances2026

Regulating phonon-carrier transport by interfacial symmetry breaking in thermoelectric multilayers.

Zhengtong Yao, Bin Liu, Shuai Zhang, Quanxin Guo, Yutao Han, Zhihao Guan, Kun Yang, Wenpei Gao, Yakun Yuan, Zhenhua Wu and 2 more

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Zhengtong YaoSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0009-0008-1979-2163
Bin LiuKey Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0009-0003-4350-9974
Shuai ZhangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7617-9201
Quanxin GuoSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Yutao HanFuture Material Innovation Center, Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 201203, China.
Zhihao GuanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Kun YangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0009-0004-9855-6871
Wenpei GaoSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2776-2676
Yakun YuanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7384-9767
Zhenhua WuState Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Engineering Science, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5527-0310
Moran WangKey Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0112-5150
Zhiyu HuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1114-052X

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More than half of global primary energy is dissipated as low-grade waste heat, yet thermoelectric conversion remains constrained by the intrinsic coupling between phonon and charge transport. Here, we introduce graded interfacial size distribution as a thermodynamic design variable that breaks translational symmetry in multilayers, enabling anisotropic regulation of phonon-carrier transport. Using bismuth telluride (Bi

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