Surfactant-free synthesis of Bi2Te3-Te micro-nano heterostructure with enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3158-3165

  Zhang, Yichi ^a   Wang, Heng ^b   Kräemer, Stephan ^c   Shi, Yifeng ^a   Zhang, Fan ^a   Snedaker, Matt ^a   Ding, Kunlun ^a   Moskovits, Martin ^a   Snyder, G Jeffrey ^b   Stucky, Galen D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

bismuth telluride; galvanic replacement; heterostructure; thermoelectric material

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY APPROACH; BISMUTH TELLURIDE; BUILDING BLOCKES; CAPPING LIGANDS; COST-EFFICIENT; ELECTRICAL CARRIERS; ELECTRON CRYSTALS; ENERGY DEPENDENT; FIGURE OF MERIT; FIGURES OF MERITS; GALVANIC REPLACEMENT; GALVANIC REPLACEMENT REACTIONS; HETEROSTRUCTURE; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; KEY PROBLEMS; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MATRIX; MICRO-NANO; NANO SCALE; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; ORGANIC RESIDUES; POWER FACTORS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS; SURFACTANT-FREE; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR; WET CHEMICALS;

BISMUTH; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHONONS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79955386622     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2002294     Document Type: Article

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