Highly Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Bi/Bi2S3 Nanocomposites
- 25 January 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Vol. 9 (5), 4828-4834
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b14803
Abstract
Bismuth sulfide (BiS) has been of high interest for thermoelectric applications due to the high abundance of sulfur on Earth. However, the low electrical conductivity of pristine BiS results in a low figure of merit (ZT). In this work, BiS@Bi core-shell nanowires with different Bi shell thicknesses were prepared by a hydrothermal method. The core-shell nanowires were densified to Bi/BiS nanocomposite by spark plasma sintering (SPS), and the structure of the nanowire was maintained as the nanocomposite due to rapid SPS processing and low sintering temperature. The thermoelectric properties of bulk samples were investigated. The electrical conductivity of a bulk sample after sintering at 673 K for 5 min using BiS@Bi nanowire powders prepared by treating BiS nanowires in a hydrazine solution for 3 h is 3 orders of magnitude greater than that of a pristine BiS sample. The nanocomposite possessed the highest ZT value of 0.36 at 623 K. This represents a new strategy for densifying core-shell powders to enhance their thermoelectric properties.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51501086)
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2015A030308001)
- Guangdong Province (00201517)
- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality (JCYJ20140612140151884, JCYJ20150831142508365)
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