In a brief introduction a general description of thermoelectricity, thermoelectric materials and their characteristics, and early investigation are given. Then the skutterudite structure is discussed with the emphasis on the atomic displacement parameters (ADP). The presented properties concern magnetism, superconductivity as well as the behavior indicating the presence of strongly correlated electronic states in some skutterudites. Particular attention is devoted to the heavy fermion and non--Fermi liquid states, and intermediate valence. Finally, some remarks about band structure and perspective of improving the thermoelectric properties of the filled skutterudites are considered.
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