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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04958-3
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- Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001299]
- National Science Foundation [1402949]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11474329]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1402949] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting waste heat into electricity. The dimensionless figure-of-merit (ZT), as the critical measure for the material's thermoelectric performance, plays a decisive role in the energy conversion efficiency. Half-Heusler materials, as one of the most promising candidates for thermoelectric power generation, have relatively low ZTs compared to other material systems. Here we report the discovery of p-type ZrCoBibased half-Heuslers with a record-high ZT of similar to 1.42 at 973 K and a high thermoelectric conversion efficiency of similar to 9% at the temperature difference of similar to 500 K. Such an outstanding thermoelectric performance originates from its unique band structure offering a high band degeneracy (N-v) of 10 in conjunction with a low thermal conductivity benefiting from the low mean sound velocity (v(m) similar to 2800ms(-1)). Our work demonstrates that ZrCoBi-based half-Heuslers are promising candidates for high-temperature thermoelectric power generation.
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