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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 137, Issue 20, Pages 6587-6593Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b01863
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21401182, 21331005, 91422303]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB932302]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2014M550347]
- Key Laboratory of Neutron Physics (CARP) [2014DB02]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University [WK 2060190020, WK 2060190027]
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Vacancy is a very important class of phonon scattering center to reduce thermal conductivity for the development of high efficient thermoelectric materials. However, conventional monovacancy may also act as an electron or hole acceptor, thereby modifying the electrical transport properties and even worsening the thermoelectric performance. This issue urges us to create new types of vacancies that scatter phonons effectively while not deteriorating the electrical transport. Herein, taking BiCuSeO as an example, we first reported the successful synergistic optimization of electrical and thermal parameters through Bi/ Cu dual vacancies. As expected, as compared to its pristine and monovacancy samples, these dual. vacancies further increase the phonon Scattering, which results in an ultra low thermal conductivity of 037 W m(-1) K-1 at 750 K. Most importantly, the clear-cut evidence in positron annihilation unambiguously confirms the interlayer charge transfer between these Bi/Cu dual vacancies, which results in the significant increase of electrical conductivity with relatively high Seebeck coefficient. As a result, BiCuSeO with Bi/Cu dual vacancies shows a high ZT value of 0.84 at 750 K, which is superior to that of its native sample and monovacancies-dominant counterparts. These findings undoubtedly elucidate a new strategy and direction for rational design of high performance thermoelectric materials.
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