Facile general route toward tunable magnéli nanostructures and their use as thermoelectric metal oxide/carbon nanocomposites

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 9052-9061

  Portehault, David ^a,b   Maneeratana, Vasana ^c   Candolfi, Christophe ^d   Oeschler, Niels ^d   Veremchuk, Igor ^d   Grin, Yuri ^d   Sanchez, Clément ^a,b   Antonietti, Markus ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magn li phases; nanocomposites; nanoparticles; porous materials; thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ADVANCED SYSTEMS; BULK PHASIS; CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FIGURES OF MERITS; FUNCTIONAL NANOCOMPOSITES; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; METAL OXIDES; NANO SCALE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; THERMAL TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GELS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; METALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POROUS MATERIALS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 81855169707     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203265u     Document Type: Article

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