You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
Mendeley readers
| Title |
Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bi2Te3 through Significant Phonon Scattering
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, October 2015
|
| DOI | 10.1021/acsami.5b07596 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lei Yang, Zhi-Gang Chen, Min Hong, Guang Han, Jin Zou |
| Abstract |
N-type Bi2Te3 nanostructures were synthesized using a solvothermal method and in turn sintered using sparking plasma sintering. The sintered n-type Bi2Te3 pellets reserved nano-sized grains and showed an ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity (~ 0.2 Wm-1K-1), which benefits from high-density small-angle grain boundaries accommodated by dislocations. Such a high phonon scattering leads an enhanced ZT of 0.88 at 400 K. This study provides an efficient method to enhance thermoelectric performance of thermoelectric nanomaterials through nanostructure engineering, making the as-prepared n-type nanostructured Bi2Te3 as a promising candidate for room temperature thermoelectric power generation and Peltier cooling. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 104 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 104 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 27% |
| Researcher | 12 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 12% |
| Unknown | 28 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Materials Science | 26 | 25% |
| Chemistry | 17 | 16% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 13 | 13% |
| Engineering | 9 | 9% |
| Chemical Engineering | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 3% |
| Unknown | 33 | 32% |