Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 209, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116791
Keywords
Thermoelectric; Skutterudites; Ordering; Inhomogeneous fillers
Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFA0705201]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51874111]
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The research fabricated Yb-filled CoSb3 skutterudites with an ultra-high Yb filling fraction, achieving an ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity. This was achieved through enhanced rattling effect and additional phonon scattering, breaking the traditional perspective of point defects scattering.
Low lattice thermal conductivity is of great importance for thermoelectric materials and thermal barrier materials. Interstitial or substitutional atoms in the host lattice fundamentally introduce point defects to scatter phonons, which is, however, not sufficient for achieving glass-like thermal conductivity. Here, we fabricated the Yb-filled CoSb3 skutterudites with an ultra-high Yb filling fraction, in which the coexistence of ordered superstructures and nano/sub-nano scale inhomogeneous Yb interstitials was revealed. An ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity approaching the glass limit was achieved due to the enhanced rattling effect from the ultra-high Yb filling fraction and extra phonon scattering from the ordered superstructures, nanoscale inhomogeneous Yb fillers, and high-density lattice strain caused by the ordered and modulated fillers. Modulating the distribution of doping atoms opens a new dimension for doping atoms to achieve ultra-low thermal conductivities for thermoelectric materials and thermal barrier materials beyond the point defects scattering perspective. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc.
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