Journal
APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
Volume 127, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-021-04599-2
Keywords
Copper sulfide nanostructures; Hexagonal covellite; X-ray diffraction; RAMAN spectroscopy; SEM; Power factor
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In this study, copper sulfide nanostructures were successfully synthesized via the hydrothermal method, with the impact of different pH values on crystal structure investigated. The results showed a decreasing trend in copper sulfide crystalline size with increasing pH values. Additionally, flower-like nanostructures formed at lower pH values, supporting an inverse relationship between crystallinity and pH value.
In this research work we have synthesized copper sulfide (Cu2-xS) nanostructures by the hydrothermal method. The post-sulfurization was performed by using tube furnace to reduce sulfur deficiency and to minimize impurities present in the crystal-lattice. The samples were synthesized by various pH values of precursor solution. The samples were characterized by XRD, RAMAN spectroscopy, SEM, Hall measurements and Seebeck effect. XRD analysis revealed the formation of hexagonal covellite (CuS) and chalcocite (Cu2S) phases of copper sulfide. Despite these phases XRD data also showed the dominating hexagonal digenite (Cu1.8S) phase of copper sulfide. We observed a decreasing trend in average crystalline size with the increasing pH values of the samples from the XRD data. We have found maximum average crystalline size of 39.1679 nm at pH value of 4. The formation of LO mode of hexagonal covellite phase of copper sulfide was observed from RAMAN analysis. The SEM images revealed the formation of flower-like nanostructures at the lowest pH value. It strengthened our argument that the crystallinity of nanostructures is inversely proportional to the pH value. We have achieved maximum values of Seebeck coefficient and conductivity at room temperature as 73.920 mu V/K and 0.909 S/cm, respectively. The Seebeck coefficient and conductivity graphs showed an increasing trend due to the energy filtering effect in mesoporous structure. The maximum value of power factor was 4.91x10(-7) Wm(-1) K-2.
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