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Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers
The remarkable tunability of 2D carbon structures combined with their non-toxicity renders them interesting candidates for thermoelectric applications. Despite some limitations related to their high thermal conductivity and low Seebeck coefficients, several other unique properties of the graphene-li...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8123901/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33925419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092242 |
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author | Saffar Shamshirgar, Ali Belmonte, Manuel Tewari, Girish C. Rojas Hernández, Rocío E. Seitsonen, Jani Ivanov, Roman Karppinen, Maarit Miranzo, Pilar Hussainova, Irina |
author_facet | Saffar Shamshirgar, Ali Belmonte, Manuel Tewari, Girish C. Rojas Hernández, Rocío E. Seitsonen, Jani Ivanov, Roman Karppinen, Maarit Miranzo, Pilar Hussainova, Irina |
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description | The remarkable tunability of 2D carbon structures combined with their non-toxicity renders them interesting candidates for thermoelectric applications. Despite some limitations related to their high thermal conductivity and low Seebeck coefficients, several other unique properties of the graphene-like structures could out-weight these weaknesses in some applications. In this study, hybrid structures of alumina ceramics and graphene encapsulated alumina nanofibers are processed by spark plasma sintering to exploit advantages of thermoelectric properties of graphene and high stiffness of alumina. The paper focuses on thermal and electronic transport properties of the systems with varying content of nanofillers (1–25 wt.%) and demonstrates an increase of the Seebeck coefficient and a reduction of the thermal conductivity with an increase in filler content. As a result, the highest thermoelectric figure of merit is achieved in a sample with 25 wt.% of the fillers corresponding to ~3 wt.% of graphene content. The graphene encapsulated nanofibrous fillers, thus, show promising potential for thermoelectric material designs by tuning their properties via carrier density modification and Fermi engineering through doping. |
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spelling | pubmed-81239012021-05-16 Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers Saffar Shamshirgar, Ali Belmonte, Manuel Tewari, Girish C. Rojas Hernández, Rocío E. Seitsonen, Jani Ivanov, Roman Karppinen, Maarit Miranzo, Pilar Hussainova, Irina Materials (Basel) Article The remarkable tunability of 2D carbon structures combined with their non-toxicity renders them interesting candidates for thermoelectric applications. Despite some limitations related to their high thermal conductivity and low Seebeck coefficients, several other unique properties of the graphene-like structures could out-weight these weaknesses in some applications. In this study, hybrid structures of alumina ceramics and graphene encapsulated alumina nanofibers are processed by spark plasma sintering to exploit advantages of thermoelectric properties of graphene and high stiffness of alumina. The paper focuses on thermal and electronic transport properties of the systems with varying content of nanofillers (1–25 wt.%) and demonstrates an increase of the Seebeck coefficient and a reduction of the thermal conductivity with an increase in filler content. As a result, the highest thermoelectric figure of merit is achieved in a sample with 25 wt.% of the fillers corresponding to ~3 wt.% of graphene content. The graphene encapsulated nanofibrous fillers, thus, show promising potential for thermoelectric material designs by tuning their properties via carrier density modification and Fermi engineering through doping. MDPI 2021-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8123901/ /pubmed/33925419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092242 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Saffar Shamshirgar, Ali Belmonte, Manuel Tewari, Girish C. Rojas Hernández, Rocío E. Seitsonen, Jani Ivanov, Roman Karppinen, Maarit Miranzo, Pilar Hussainova, Irina Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers |
title | Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers |
title_full | Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers |
title_fullStr | Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers |
title_full_unstemmed | Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers |
title_short | Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Effect in Composites of Alumina and Graphene-Augmented Alumina Nanofibers |
title_sort | thermal transport and thermoelectric effect in composites of alumina and graphene-augmented alumina nanofibers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8123901/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33925419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092242 |
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