High-Performance Thermoelectrics from Cellular Nanostructured Sb2Si2Te6
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We introduce Sb2Si2Te6 as a high-performance thermoelectric material. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis indicates that Sb2Si2Te6 has a layered two-dimensional structure with Sb3+ cations and [Si2Te6]6− units as building blocks adopting the Fe2P2Se6 structure type. Sb2Si2Te6 is a direct-band-gap semiconductor with valence-band maximum and conduction-band minimum at the Z point in the Brillouin zone, where the band is doubly degenerate. Polycrystalline bulk pellets of Sb2Si2Te6 with randomly packed grains exhibit an intrinsically high thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of ∼1.08 at 823 K. We then create a cellular nanostructure with ultrathin Si2Te3 nanosheets covering the Sb2Si2Te6 grains, which act as a hole-transmitting electron-blocking filter and at the same time cause extra phonon scattering. This dual function of the cellular nanostructure achieves an ultralow thermal conductivity value of ∼0.29 Wm−1K−1 and a high ZT value of ∼1.65 at 823 K for Sb2Si2Te6, along with a high average ZT value of ∼0.98.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices · Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies · Thermal properties of materials
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