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Te-free Bi2S3-based thermoelectric materials show great potential for eco-friendly and industrial scale-up applications because of their high-abundance, low-cost, low-toxicity, and low-thermal-conductivity features. However, their low figure of merit, ZT limits their further applications. In this work, we report a high ZT of similar to 0.8 at similar to 760 K in n-type polycrystalline Bi2S3 by a combination of hierarchical structure manipulation and carrier density optimization. A step-by-step fabrication by using mechanical alloying, high-pressure and high-temperature treatment, spark plasma sintering, and annealing leads to unique micro/nanostructures in polycrystalline Bi2S3 including refined grains, high-density Bi-rich nanoprecipitates, significant lattice distortions, and nanopores that confirmed by comprehensive characterizations, which contribute to significantly suppressed lattice thermal conductivity of 0.41 W m(-1) K-1 at similar to 760 K. A further 0.5 mol% CuCl2-doping triggers impurity band in the electronic structure of Bi2S3 and narrows the bandgap for optimizing the carrier concentration at similar to 1 x 10(20) cm(-3), confirmed by both experimental results and first-principles density functional theory calculations. The optimized carrier concentration and maintained low lattice thermal conductivity give rise to a high power factor of similar to 5.3 mu W cm(-1) K-2 and high ZT that ranks as a top value. This work provides a new route to achieve high thermoelectric performance in n-type polycrystalline Bi2S3.
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NANO ENERGY
ISSN: 2211-2855
年份: 2021
卷: 87
1 7 . 6 0 0
JCR@2022
ESI学科: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
ESI高被引阀值:116
JCR分区:1