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Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting

AgSbTe(2) intermetallic compound is a promising thermoelectric material. It has also been described as necessary to obtain LAST and TAGS alloys, some of the best performing thermoelectrics of the last decades. Due to the random location of Ag and Sb atoms in the crystal structure, the electronic str...

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Autores principales: Gainza, Javier, Serrano-Sánchez, Federico, Dura, Oscar J., Nemes, Norbert M., Martínez, Jose Luis, Fernández-Díaz, María Teresa, Alonso, José Antonio
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9653711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36364685
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12213910
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author Gainza, Javier
Serrano-Sánchez, Federico
Dura, Oscar J.
Nemes, Norbert M.
Martínez, Jose Luis
Fernández-Díaz, María Teresa
Alonso, José Antonio
author_facet Gainza, Javier
Serrano-Sánchez, Federico
Dura, Oscar J.
Nemes, Norbert M.
Martínez, Jose Luis
Fernández-Díaz, María Teresa
Alonso, José Antonio
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description AgSbTe(2) intermetallic compound is a promising thermoelectric material. It has also been described as necessary to obtain LAST and TAGS alloys, some of the best performing thermoelectrics of the last decades. Due to the random location of Ag and Sb atoms in the crystal structure, the electronic structure is highly influenced by the atomic ordering of these atoms and makes the accurate determination of the Ag/Sb occupancy of paramount importance. We report on the synthesis of polycrystalline AgSbTe(2) by arc-melting, yielding nanostructured dense pellets. SEM images show a conspicuous layered nanostructuration, with a layer thickness of 25–30 nm. Neutron powder diffraction data show that AgSbTe(2) crystalizes in the cubic Pm-3m space group, with a slight deficiency of Te, probably due to volatilization during the arc-melting process. The transport properties show some anomalies at ~600 K, which can be related to the onset temperature for atomic ordering. The average thermoelectric figure of merit remains around ~0.6 from ~550 up to ~680 K.
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spelling pubmed-96537112022-11-15 Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting Gainza, Javier Serrano-Sánchez, Federico Dura, Oscar J. Nemes, Norbert M. Martínez, Jose Luis Fernández-Díaz, María Teresa Alonso, José Antonio Nanomaterials (Basel) Article AgSbTe(2) intermetallic compound is a promising thermoelectric material. It has also been described as necessary to obtain LAST and TAGS alloys, some of the best performing thermoelectrics of the last decades. Due to the random location of Ag and Sb atoms in the crystal structure, the electronic structure is highly influenced by the atomic ordering of these atoms and makes the accurate determination of the Ag/Sb occupancy of paramount importance. We report on the synthesis of polycrystalline AgSbTe(2) by arc-melting, yielding nanostructured dense pellets. SEM images show a conspicuous layered nanostructuration, with a layer thickness of 25–30 nm. Neutron powder diffraction data show that AgSbTe(2) crystalizes in the cubic Pm-3m space group, with a slight deficiency of Te, probably due to volatilization during the arc-melting process. The transport properties show some anomalies at ~600 K, which can be related to the onset temperature for atomic ordering. The average thermoelectric figure of merit remains around ~0.6 from ~550 up to ~680 K. MDPI 2022-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9653711/ /pubmed/36364685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12213910 Text en © 2022 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/).
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Gainza, Javier
Serrano-Sánchez, Federico
Dura, Oscar J.
Nemes, Norbert M.
Martínez, Jose Luis
Fernández-Díaz, María Teresa
Alonso, José Antonio
Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting
title Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting
title_full Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting
title_fullStr Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting
title_full_unstemmed Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting
title_short Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured AgSbTe(2) Thermoelectric Material, Obtained by Arc-Melting
title_sort reduced thermal conductivity in nanostructured agsbte(2) thermoelectric material, obtained by arc-melting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9653711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36364685
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12213910
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