The project will establish a new trans-national academic collaboration, acting as a springboard for further research and will extend UK TE network activities into the international sphere. In delivering new high-performance TE materials for the technologically-important 200 - 400 °C region, the project has the potential for significant impact on the academic community in the following areas:

1. The new TE materials emerging from the project will stimulate detailed study of the composition-structure-property relationships across the Chemistry-Physics interface.

2. Producing a high-performance n-type sulphide will stimulate efforts to apply a combination of computational and synthetic approaches to materials applicable to other temperature ranges.

3. Demonstration that the introduction of two-dimensional nanosheets into nanocomposites of sulphide TEs will lead to wider application of this approach to other candidate materials.

4. Advances in understanding the role of microstructure in determining the properties of sulphides and their composites will lead materials scientists investigating micro-structure-property relationships to formulate new high-performance materials.

5. The increased understanding of electron and thermal transport across interfaces will lead to the formulation of new design strategies for the creation of high-performance materials.

6. The creation of new high-performance materials will lead engineers to tackle fundamental issues associated with the construction of devices containing these materials.