Colloidal synthesis of Cu2CdSnSe4 nanocrystals and hot-pressing to enhance the thermoelectric figure-of-merit.

J Am Chem Soc

Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China.

Published: October 2011

We report a solution-based synthesis of monodispersed Cu(2)CdSnSe(4) nanocrystals and a study on the thermoelectric properties of these wide-band-gap dense materials compacted from nanocrystals for the first time. With the help of copper dopants and selenium vacancies generated during wet-chemistry synthesis, a large increment in the power factor is observed, and the dimensionless figure-of-merit ZT reaches a peak value of 0.65 at 450 °C.

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