High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

Polycrystalline SnSe with Extraordinary Thermoelectric Property via Nanoporous Design

X Shi, A Wu, W Liu, R Moshwan, Y Wang, ZG Chen… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanoporous materials possess low thermal conductivities derived from effective phonon
scatterings at grain boundaries and interfaces. Thus nanoporous thermoelectric materials …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type heavily Cu-doped polycrystalline SnSe via inducing intensive crystal imperfections and defect phonon …

X Shi, K Zheng, M Hong, W Liu, R Moshwan… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we, for the first time, report a high Cu solubility of 11.8% in single crystal SnSe
microbelts synthesized via a facile solvothermal route. The pellets sintered from these …

Realizing high thermoelectric performance in n‐type highly distorted Sb‐doped SnSe microplates via tuning high electron concentration and inducing intensive crystal …

XL Shi, K Zheng, WD Liu, Y Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a record high figure of merit (ZT) of≈ 1.1 at 773 K is reported in n‐type highly
distorted Sb‐doped SnSe microplates via a facile solvothermal method. The pellets sintered …

In situ atomic force microscopy study of nano–micro sodium deposition in ester-based electrolytes

M Han, C Zhu, T Ma, Z Pan, Z Tao… - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We report an in situ analysis of nano-micro sodium deposition in an ester-based electrolyte
using atomic force microscopy. It is found that sodium dendrites are effectively suppressed …

The thermoelectric properties of SnSe continue to surprise: extraordinary electron and phonon transport

C Chang, G Tan, J He, MG Kanatzidis… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric technology enables the harvest of waste heat and its direct conversion into
electricity. Most well-developed strategies aimed at enhancing thermoelectric performance …

n-Type Ultrathin Few-Layer Nanosheets of Bi-Doped SnSe: Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties

S Chandra, A Banik, K Biswas - ACS Energy Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
SnSe, an environmentally friendly layered chalcogenide, has fostered immense attention in
the thermoelectric community with its high thermoelectric figure of merit in single crystals …

Twin Engineering in Solution‐Synthesized Nonstoichiometric Cu5FeS4 Icosahedral Nanoparticles for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance

A Zhang, B Zhang, W Lu, D Xie, H Ou… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A facile colloidal solution method has been developed for the fast, scalable synthesis of
orthorhombic@ cubic core–shell nonstoichiometric Cu5FeS4 icosahedral nanoparticles …

N-type Bi-doped SnSe thermoelectric nanomaterials synthesized by a facile solution method

X Li, C Chen, W Xue, S Li, F Cao, Y Chen… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
An n-type Bi-doped SnSe was synthesized by a facile solution method followed by spark
plasma sintering. We used bismuth (III) 2-ethyhexanoate as a cationic dopant precursor …

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Cu 3 SbS 4 flower-like hierarchical architectures composed of Cl doped nanoflakes via an in situ generated CuS template

Q Wang, J Li, J Li - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, Cu3SbS4 hierarchical flower-like microspheres composed of chlorine (Cl−)-
doped Cu3SbS4 nanoflakes are realized via a one pot solvothermal ion exchange reaction …