材料科学
热电效应
晶界
硼
冶金
维氏硬度试验
粒度
热电材料
粉末冶金
晶界强化
功勋
复合材料
微观结构
热导率
光电子学
热力学
化学
物理
有机化学
作者
Chaohua Zhang,Xingjin Geng,Bin Chen,Junqin Li,Alexander Meledin,Lipeng Hu,Fusheng Liu,Jigui Shi,Joachim Mayer,Matthias Wuttig,Oana Cojocaru‐Mirédin,Yuan Yu
出处
期刊:Small
[Wiley]
日期:2021-09-19
卷期号:17 (42)
被引量:25
标识
DOI:10.1002/smll.202104067
摘要
Powder metallurgy introduces small structures of high-density grain boundaries into Bi2 Te3 -based alloys, which promises to enhance their mechanical and thermoelectric performance. However, due to the strong donor-like effect induced by the increased surface, Te vacancies form in the powder-metallurgy process. Hence, the as-sintered n-type Bi2 Te3 -based alloys show a lower figure of merit (ZT) value than their p-type counterparts and the commercial zone-melted (ZM) ingots. Here, boron is added to one-step-sintered n-type Bi2 Te3 -based alloys to inhibit grain growth and to suppress the donor-like effect, simultaneously improving the mechanical and thermoelectric (TE) performance. Due to the alleviated donor-like effect and the carrier mobility maintained in our n-type Bi2 Te2.7 Se0.3 alloys upon the addition of boron, the maximum and average ZT values within 298-473 K can be enhanced to 1.03 and 0.91, respectively, which are even slightly higher than that of n-type ZM ingots. Moreover, the addition of boron greatly improves the mechanical strength such as Vickers hardness and compressive strength due to the synergetic effects of Hall-Petch grain-boundary strengthening and boron dispersion strengthening. This facile and cost-effective grain boundary engineering by adding boron facilitates the practical application of Bi2 Te3 -based alloys and can also be popularized in other thermoelectric materials.
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