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Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Volume 6, 2015

Thermoelectric Properties of Solution Synthesized Nanostructured Materials

Abstract

Thermoelectric nanocomposites made by solution synthesis and compression of nanostructured chalcogenides could potentially be low-cost, scalable alternatives to traditional solid-state synthesized materials. We review the progress in this field by comparing the power factor and/or the thermoelectric figure of merit, , of four classes of materials: (Bi,Sb)(Te,Se), PbTe, ternary and quaternary copper chalcogenides, and silver chalcogenides. We also discuss the thermal conductivity reduction associated with multiphased nanocomposites. The of the best solution synthesized materials are, in several cases, shown to be equal to or greater than the corresponding bulk materials despite the generally reduced mobility associated with solution synthesized nanocomposites. For the solution synthesized materials with the highest performance, the synthesis and processing conditions are summarized to provide guidance for future work.

Keyword(s): bottom-up, chalcogenides, nanocomposite, nanotechnology, wet-chemistry, ZT
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