Unexpected high-temperature stability of β-Zn4Sb 3 opens the door to enhanced thermoelectric performance

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1497-1504

  Lin, Jianping ^a   Li, Xudong ^a   Qiao, Guanjun ^a,b   Wang, Zhao ^a   Carrete, Jesús ^c   Ren, Yang ^d   Ma, Lingzhi ^a   Fei, Youjian ^a   Yang, Baifeng ^a   Lei, Lei ^a   Li, Ju ^a,e  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE STABILITY; INTERSTITIAL POSITIONS; MICROSCOPIC BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT; WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGES;

ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMOELECTRICITY; ZINC;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ZINC;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84893518365     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja410605f     Document Type: Article

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