Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Pages: 23021-23028

Journal: RSC Advances

Volume number: 9

Issue number: 40

eISSN: 2046-2069

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra04800f

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Abstract: 
Considering the need for large quantities of high efficiency thermoelectric materials for industrial applications, a scalable synthesis method for high performance magnesium silicide based materials is proposed. The synthesis procedure consists of a melting step followed by high energy ball milling. All the materials synthesized via this method demonstrated not only high functional homogeneity but also high electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficients of around 1000 omega(-1) cm(-1) and -200 mu V K-1 at 773 K, respectively. The measured values were similar for all the samples extracted from the null 50 mm and null 70 mm compacted pellets and were stable upon thermal cycling. Thermal stability experiments from 168 hours to 720 hours at 723 K revealed no significant change in the material properties. The low thermal conductivity of similar to 2.5 W m(-1) K-1 at 773 K led to a maximum figure of merit, zT(max), of 1.3 at the same temperature and an average value, zT(avg), of 0.9 between 300 K and 773 K, which enables high efficiency in future silicide-based thermoelectric generators.

Harvard Citation style: Farahi, N., Stiewe, C., Truong, D., de Boor, J. and Mueller, E. (2019) High efficiency Mg₂(Si,Sn)-based thermoelectric materials: scale-up synthesis, functional homogeneity, and thermal stability, RSC Advances, 9(40), pp. 23021-23028. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra04800f

APA Citation style: Farahi, N., Stiewe, C., Truong, D., de Boor, J., & Mueller, E. (2019). High efficiency Mg₂(Si,Sn)-based thermoelectric materials: scale-up synthesis, functional homogeneity, and thermal stability. RSC Advances. 9(40), 23021-23028. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra04800f