期刊
ACS NANO
卷 4, 期 5, 页码 2523-2530出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn100267q
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self-assembly; hierarchical nanostructure; thermoelectric materials; bismuth telluride; hydrothermal synthesis
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资金
- Danish Strategic Research Council (Centre for Energy Materials)
- Danish National Research Foundation (Centre for Materials Crystallography)
- Danish Research Council for Nature and Universe (Danscatt)
A simple biomolecule-assisted hydrothermal approach has been developed for the fabrication of Bi2Te3 thermoelectric nanomaterials. The product has a nanostring-cluster hierarchical structure which is composed of ordered and aligned platelet-like crystals. The platelets are similar to 100 nm in diameter and only similar to 10 nm thick even though a high reaction temperature of 220 degrees C and a long reaction time of 24 h were applied to prepare the sample. The growth of the Bi2Te3 hierarchical structure appears to be a self-assembly process. Initially, Te nanorods are formed using alginic acid as both reductant and template. Subsequently, Bi2Te3 grows in a certain direction on the surface of the Te rods, resulting in the nanostring structure. The nanostrings further recombine side-by-side with each other to achieve the ordered nanostring clusters. The particle size and morphology can be controlled by adjusting the concentration of NaOH, which plays a crucial role on the formation mechanism of Bi2Te3. An even smaller polycrystalline Bi2Te3 superstructure composed of polycrystalline nanorods with some nanoplatelets attached to the nanorods is achieved at lower NaOH concentration. The room temperature thermoelectric properties have been evaluated with an average Seebeck coefficient of -172 mu V K-1, an electrical resistivity of 1.97 x 10(-3) Omega m, and a thermal conductivity of 0.29W m(-1) K-1.
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