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Colloidal Synthesis of Cu2CdSnSe4 Nanocrystals and Hot-Pressing to Enhance the Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit

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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 40, Pages 15910-15913

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja207159j

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  1. National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB934700]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [50732006, 91022032]
  3. International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China [2010DFA41170]
  4. National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at the University of Science and Techology of China
  5. U.S. Department of Energy [DOE DE-FG02-00ER45805]

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We report a solution-based synthesis of monodispersed Cu2CdSnSe4 nanocrystals and a study on the thermoelectric properties of these wide-band-gap dense materials compacted from nanocrystals for the first time. With the help of copper dopants and selenium vacancies generated during wet-chemistry synthesis, a large increment in the power factor is observed, and the dimensionless figure-of-merit ZT reaches a peak value of 0.65 at 450 degrees C.

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