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abstract:
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text: SnSe has emerged as one of the most promising materials for thermoelectric
energy conversion due to its extraordinary performance in its single-crystal form
and its low-cost constituent elements. However, to achieve an economic impact,
the polycrystalline counterpart needs to replicate the performance of the single
crystal. Herein, we optimize the thermoelectric performance of polycrystalline
SnSe produced by consolidating solution-processed and surface-engineered SnSe
particles. In particular, the SnSe particles are coated with CdSe molecular complexes
that crystallize during the sintering process, forming CdSe nanoparticles. The
presence of CdSe nanoparticles inhibits SnSe grain growth during the consolidation
step due to Zener pinning, yielding a material with a high density of grain boundaries.
Moreover, the resulting SnSe–CdSe nanocomposites present a large number of defects
at different length scales, which significantly reduce the thermal conductivity.
The produced SnSe–CdSe nanocomposites exhibit thermoelectric figures of merit
up to 2.2 at 786 K, which is among the highest reported for solution-processed
SnSe.
acknowledgement: 'This work was financially supported by IST Austria and the Werner
Siemens Foundation. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement
No. 754411. S.L. and M.C. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement
No. 665385. J.D. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 665919
(P-SPHERE) cofunded by Severo Ochoa Programme. C.C. acknowledges funding from the
FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N. Y.Y. and O.C.-M. acknowledge
the financial support from DFG within the project SFB 917: Nanoswitches. M.C.S.
received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754510 (PROBIST)
and the Severo Ochoa programme. J.D. received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie
grant agreement No. 665919 (P-SPHERE) cofunded by Severo Ochoa Programme. The ICN2
is funded by the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya and by the Severo Ochoa
program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (MINECO,
grant no. SEV-2017-0706). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya
2017 SGR 327 and the Spanish MINECO project NANOGEN (PID2020-116093RB-C43). This
project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under grant agreement No. 823717-ESTEEM3. The FIB sample preparation was
conducted in the LMA-INA-Universidad de Zaragoza.'
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author:
- first_name: Yu
full_name: Liu, Yu
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last_name: Liu
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- first_name: Mariano
full_name: Calcabrini, Mariano
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last_name: Calcabrini
- first_name: Yuan
full_name: Yu, Yuan
last_name: Yu
- first_name: Seungho
full_name: Lee, Seungho
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last_name: Lee
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- first_name: Cheng
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last_name: Chang
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- first_name: Jérémy
full_name: David, Jérémy
last_name: David
- first_name: Tanmoy
full_name: Ghosh, Tanmoy
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last_name: Ghosh
- first_name: Maria Chiara
full_name: Spadaro, Maria Chiara
last_name: Spadaro
- first_name: Chenyang
full_name: Xie, Chenyang
last_name: Xie
- first_name: Oana
full_name: Cojocaru-Mirédin, Oana
last_name: Cojocaru-Mirédin
- first_name: Jordi
full_name: Arbiol, Jordi
last_name: Arbiol
- first_name: Maria
full_name: Ibáñez, Maria
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citation:
ama: Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, et al. Defect engineering in solution-processed
polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. ACS Nano.
2022;16(1):78-88. doi:10.1021/acsnano.1c06720
apa: Liu, Y., Calcabrini, M., Yu, Y., Lee, S., Chang, C., David, J., … Ibáñez, M.
(2022). Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to
high thermoelectric performance. ACS Nano. American Chemical Society .
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720
chicago: Liu, Yu, Mariano Calcabrini, Yuan Yu, Seungho Lee, Cheng Chang, Jérémy
David, Tanmoy Ghosh, et al. “Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline
SnSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance.” ACS Nano. American Chemical
Society , 2022. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720.
ieee: Y. Liu et al., “Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline
SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance,” ACS Nano, vol. 16, no.
1. American Chemical Society , pp. 78–88, 2022.
ista: Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, Lee S, Chang C, David J, Ghosh T, Spadaro MC, Xie
C, Cojocaru-Mirédin O, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M. 2022. Defect engineering in solution-processed
polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. ACS Nano. 16(1),
78–88.
mla: Liu, Yu, et al. “Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline SnSe
Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance.” ACS Nano, vol. 16, no. 1, American
Chemical Society , 2022, pp. 78–88, doi:10.1021/acsnano.1c06720.
short: Y. Liu, M. Calcabrini, Y. Yu, S. Lee, C. Chang, J. David, T. Ghosh, M.C.
Spadaro, C. Xie, O. Cojocaru-Mirédin, J. Arbiol, M. Ibáñez, ACS Nano 16 (2022)
78–88.
date_created: 2021-09-24T07:55:12Z
date_published: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
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keyword:
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- grain growth
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