Nontoxic and abundant copper zinc tin sulfide nanocrystals for potential high-temperature thermoelectric energy harvesting

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 540-545

  Yang, Haoran ^a   Jauregui, Luis A ^a   Zhang, Genqiang ^a   Chen, Yong P ^a   Wu, Yue ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abundant; copper zinc tin sulfide; doping; nanocrystal; nontoxic; Thermoelectric

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANT; COPPER DOPING; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOT PRESS; NANO SCALE; NANOCRYSTAL SYNTHESIS; NONTOXIC; PHONON TRANSPORT; SOLUTION PHASE; THERMAL MEASUREMENTS; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; TIN SULFIDE;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); POWER QUALITY; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; TIN; TINNING; WASTE HEAT;

NANOCRYSTALS;

COPPER; NANOPARTICLE; SULFIDE; TIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; COPPER; ELECTRICITY; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; TIN; ZINC;

EID: 84856975480     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl201718z     Document Type: Article

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