Porous hybrid materials and MOF (Metal–Organic-Framework) films represent modern designer materials that exhibit many requirements of a near ideal and tunable future thermoelectric (TE) material. In contrast to traditional semiconducting bulk TE materials, porous hybrid MOF templates can be used to overcome some of the constraints of physics in bulk TE materials. These porous hybrid systems are amenable for simulation and modeling to design novel optimized electron-crystal phonon-glass materials with potentially very high ZT (figure of merit) numbers. Porous MOF and hybrid materials possess an ultra-low thermal conductivity, which can be further modulated by phonon engineering within their complex porous and hierarchical architecture to advance the TE figure of merit (ZT). This Perspective review discusses recent results of MOF TE materials and provides a future outlook and the vision to the search for the next generation TE porous hybrid and MOF materials, which could be part of the green renewable energy revolution with novel materials of sustainably high ZT values.

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基于热电多孔 MOF 的杂化材料

多孔混合材料和 MOF（金属-有机框架）薄膜代表了现代设计师材料，它们表现出对近乎理想和可调的未来热电 (TE) 材料的许多要求。与传统的半导体块状 TE 材料相比，多孔混合 MOF 模板可用于克服块状 TE 材料中的一些物理限制。这些多孔混合系统适用于模拟和建模，以设计具有潜在非常高 ZT（品质因数）数的新型优化电子晶体声子玻璃材料。多孔 MOF 和混合材料具有超低热导率，可以通过声子工程在其复杂的多孔和分层结构中进一步调节，以提高 TE 品质因数 (ZT)。