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High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges
Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding electrical transport properties by appropriate bandgaps and intrinsic low lattice thermal conductivity from its anharmon...
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32274303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201902923 |
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author | Shi, Xiao‐Lei Tao, Xinyong Zou, Jin Chen, Zhi‐Gang |
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description | Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding electrical transport properties by appropriate bandgaps and intrinsic low lattice thermal conductivity from its anharmonic layered structure. Advanced aqueous synthesis possesses various unique advantages including convenient morphology control, exceptional high doping solubility, and distinctive vacancy engineering. Considering that there is an urgent demand for a comprehensive survey on the aqueous synthesis technique applied to thermoelectric SnSe, herein, a thorough overview of aqueous synthesis, characterization, and thermoelectric performance in SnSe is provided. New insights into the aqueous synthesis‐based strategies for improving the performance are provided, including vacancy synergy, crystallization design, solubility breakthrough, and local lattice imperfection engineering, and an attempt to build the inherent links between the aqueous synthesis‐induced structural characteristics and the excellent thermoelectric performance is presented. Furthermore, the significant advantages and potentials of an aqueous synthesis route for fabricating SnSe‐based 2D thermoelectric generators, including nanorods, nanobelts, and nanosheets, are also discussed. Finally, the controversy, strategy, and outlook toward future enhancement of SnSe‐based thermoelectric materials are also provided. This Review guides the design of thermoelectric SnSe with high performance and provides new perspectives as a reference for other thermoelectric systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-71410482020-04-09 High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges Shi, Xiao‐Lei Tao, Xinyong Zou, Jin Chen, Zhi‐Gang Adv Sci (Weinh) Reviews Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding electrical transport properties by appropriate bandgaps and intrinsic low lattice thermal conductivity from its anharmonic layered structure. Advanced aqueous synthesis possesses various unique advantages including convenient morphology control, exceptional high doping solubility, and distinctive vacancy engineering. Considering that there is an urgent demand for a comprehensive survey on the aqueous synthesis technique applied to thermoelectric SnSe, herein, a thorough overview of aqueous synthesis, characterization, and thermoelectric performance in SnSe is provided. New insights into the aqueous synthesis‐based strategies for improving the performance are provided, including vacancy synergy, crystallization design, solubility breakthrough, and local lattice imperfection engineering, and an attempt to build the inherent links between the aqueous synthesis‐induced structural characteristics and the excellent thermoelectric performance is presented. Furthermore, the significant advantages and potentials of an aqueous synthesis route for fabricating SnSe‐based 2D thermoelectric generators, including nanorods, nanobelts, and nanosheets, are also discussed. Finally, the controversy, strategy, and outlook toward future enhancement of SnSe‐based thermoelectric materials are also provided. This Review guides the design of thermoelectric SnSe with high performance and provides new perspectives as a reference for other thermoelectric systems. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7141048/ /pubmed/32274303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201902923 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Reviews Shi, Xiao‐Lei Tao, Xinyong Zou, Jin Chen, Zhi‐Gang High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges |
title | High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges |
title_full | High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges |
title_fullStr | High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges |
title_short | High‐Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges |
title_sort | high‐performance thermoelectric snse: aqueous synthesis, innovations, and challenges |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32274303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201902923 |
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