Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 7, Issue 14, Pages 4124-4131Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8tc06461j
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- Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities - FEDER [MAT2017-84496-R, MAT2017-87134-C2-2-R, MAT2015-66888-C3-3-R]
- Community of Madrid [2017-T2/I ND-5597]
- ERC [PoC2015-MAGTOOLS]
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Thermoelectric mischmetal-filled Mm(x)Co(4)Sb(12) (Mm: natural cocktail of rare-earth elements, mostly Ce and La) skutterudites have been synthesized and sintered in one step under high-pressure conditions at 3.5 GPa in a piston-cylinder hydrostatic press. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction patterns display a splitting of the diffraction peaks ascribed to purely Ce-, and Mm-filled skutterudite phases, which have been analyzed and confirmed by high-resolution TEM and EELS. A total thermal conductivity () of 1.51 W m(-1) K-1 is measured at 773 K for Mm(0.5)Co(4)Sb(12), below that of other filled skutterudites, which is promoted by the enhanced phonon scattering over a broad range of the phonon spectrum due to the inhomogeneous and nanoscale mischmetal inclusion. Compared to undoped CoSb3 skutterudite synthesized by conventional methods, is reduced by a factor of 3, while the power factor is also substantially enhanced.
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