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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 6, 期 48, 页码 24877-24884出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ta08448c
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51772035, 11674040, 51672270]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [106112017CDJQJ308821, 106112016CDJZR308808, 2018CDYJSY0055]
- CSC scholarship
- Key Research Program for Frontier Sciences, CAS [QYZDB-SSW-SLH016]
- US DOE by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-07ER46433]
- Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
We propose a new strategy to design high performance thermoelectric materials with stereochemically active lone pair electrons. This novel concept is experimentally demonstrated in the cluster compounds Ag6Ge10(1-x)Ga10xP12 with x = 0.0, 0.01, 0.03, 0.04. A maximum power factor of 13 W cm(-1) K-2 is achieved after optimizing carrier concentration. Density functional theory calculations reveal that the stereochemically active lone pair electrons from s orbitals of Ge give rise to a peak in the density of states near the valence band maximum, a feature that is beneficial for achieving a high power factor. Experimental results also confirm the theoretically predicted relatively low thermal conductivity of about 1 W m(-1) K-1 arising from the rattling vibrations associated with Ag-6 clusters, which create low-frequency localized optical phonons in the acoustic region and thus enable strong anharmonic phonon scattering. The highest zT value attained here is 0.65 at 723 K for the x = 0.03 sample, a record high value for polycrystalline phosphide and still with significant potential for optimization.
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