Enhanced thermoelectric properties of Ag-Modified Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 composites by a facile electroless plating method
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| Article Title | Enhanced thermoelectric properties of Ag-Modified Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 composites by a facile electroless plating method |
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| ERA Journal ID | 40638 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Cao, Shen (Author), Huang, Zhong-Yue (Author), Zu, Fang-Qiu (Author), Xu, Ju (Author), Yang, Lei (Author) and Chen, Zhi-Gang (Author) |
| Journal Title | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
| Journal Citation | 9 (42), pp. 36478-36482 |
| Number of Pages | 5 |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | American Chemical Society |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| ISSN | 1944-8244 |
| 1944-8252 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b11989 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsami.7b11989 |
| Abstract | A large-scale and facile electroless plating Ag method has been developed to fabricate high-performing Ag/Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 (Ag/BST) composites. Ag can be doped into BST and also forms Ag2Te secondary phase in BST, leading to a low lattice thermal conductivity of 0.34 Wm−1K−1. Consequently, a peak zT of 1.07 and average zT of 1.02 are achieved in 0.03wt% Ag/BST. The average zT value is enhanced by 100% in the temperature interval from 300 to 500 K compared with that of Ag-free BST. This work provides a facile and large-scale method to fabricate the high performance Bi2Te3-based alloy for applying in the low-temperature power generation. |
| Keywords | thermoelectric materials, bismuth telluride, point defect, electroless plating, Ag doping, Ag2Te phase |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401605. Functional materials |
| Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
| Byline Affiliations | Hefei University of Technology, China |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
| Sichuan University, China | |
| University of Southern Queensland | |
| Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
| Funding source | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
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