scholarly journals High Thermoelectric Performance of Cu-Doped PbSe-PbS System Enabled by High-Throughput Experimental Screening

Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Li You ◽  
Zhili Li ◽  
Quanying Ma ◽  
Shiyang He ◽  
Qidong Zhang ◽  
...  

Recent advances in high-throughput (HTP) computational power and machine learning have led to great achievements in exploration of new thermoelectric materials. However, experimental discovery and optimization of thermoelectric materials have long relied on the traditional Edisonian trial and error approach. Herein, we demonstrate that ultrahigh thermoelectric performance in a Cu-doped PbSe-PbS system can be realized by HTP experimental screening and precise property modulation. Combining the HTP experimental technique with transport model analysis, an optimal Se/S ratio showing high thermoelectric performance has been efficiently screened out. Subsequently, based on the screened Se/S ratio, the doping content of Cu has been subtly adjusted to reach the optimum carrier concentration. As a result, an outstanding peak zT~1.6 is achieved at 873 K for a 1.8 at% Cu-doped PbSe0.6S0.4 sample, which is the superior value among the n-type Te-free lead chalcogenides. We anticipate that current work will stimulate large-scale unitization of the HTP experimental technique in the thermoelectric field, which can greatly accelerate the research and development of new high-performance thermoelectric materials.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (41) ◽  
pp. 20454-20462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Li ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Boyi Wang ◽  
Shichao Liu ◽  
Luo Yue ◽  
...  

Thermoelectric performance can be largely enhanced by forming solid solutions and biaxial strain.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (45) ◽  
pp. 22381-22390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufeng Xue ◽  
Chunmei Gao ◽  
Lirong Liang ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Guangming Chen

This review discusses recent advances in controlled fabrication of nanostructures and the enhanced thermoelectric performance of polymers and their composites.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 2130-2136
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Ramirez ◽  
Leilane R. Macario ◽  
Xiaoyu Cheng ◽  
Michael Cino ◽  
Daniel Walsh ◽  
...  

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 365 (6460) ◽  
pp. 1418-1424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenke He ◽  
Dongyang Wang ◽  
Haijun Wu ◽  
Yu Xiao ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
...  

Thermoelectric technology allows conversion between heat and electricity. Many good thermoelectric materials contain rare or toxic elements, so developing low-cost and high-performance thermoelectric materials is warranted. Here, we report the temperature-dependent interplay of three separate electronic bands in hole-doped tin sulfide (SnS) crystals. This behavior leads to synergistic optimization between effective mass (m*) and carrier mobility (μ) and can be boosted through introducing selenium (Se). This enhanced the power factor from ~30 to ~53 microwatts per centimeter per square kelvin (μW cm−1 K−2 at 300 K), while lowering the thermal conductivity after Se alloying. As a result, we obtained a maximum figure of merit ZT (ZTmax) of ~1.6 at 873 K and an average ZT (ZTave) of ~1.25 at 300 to 873 K in SnS0.91Se0.09 crystals. Our strategy for band manipulation offers a different route for optimizing thermoelectric performance. The high-performance SnS crystals represent an important step toward low-cost, Earth-abundant, and environmentally friendly thermoelectrics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (37) ◽  
pp. 19674-19683
Author(s):  
Sevil Sarikurt ◽  
Tuğbey Kocabaş ◽  
Cem Sevik

High-performance thermoelectric materials are critical in recuperating the thermal losses in various machinery and promising in renewable energy applications.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hangbin Feng ◽  
Lixia Zhang ◽  
Jialun Zhang ◽  
Wenqin Gou ◽  
Sujuan Zhong ◽  
...  

CoSb3-based skutterudite alloy is one of the most promising thermoelectric materials in the middle temperature range (room temperature—550 °C). However, the realization of an appropriate metallization layer directly on the sintered skutterudite pellet is indispensable for the real thermoelectric generation application. Here, we report an approach to prepare the metallization layer and the subsequent diffusion bonding method for the high-performance multi-filled n-type skutterudite alloys. Using the electroplating followed by low-temperature annealing approaches, we successfully fabricated a Co-Mo metallization layer on the surface of the skutterudite alloy. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the electroplated layer was optimized by changing its chemical composition, which can be controlled by the electroplating temperature, current and the concentration of the Mo ions in the solution. We then joined the metallized skutterudite leg to the Cu-Mo electrode using a diffusion bonding method performed at 600 °C and 1 MPa for 10 min. The Co-Mo/skutterudite interfaces exhibit extremely low specific contact resistivity of 1.41 μΩ cm2. The metallization layer inhibited the elemental inter-diffusion to less than 11 µm after annealing at 550 °C for 60 h, indicating a good thermal stability. The current results pave the way for the large-scale fabrication of CoSb3-based thermoelectric modules.


Author(s):  
Tao Fan ◽  
Artem R. Oganov

Searching for thermoelectric materials with high energy conversion efficiency is important to solve the energy and environment issues of our society. In this work, we studied the thermoelectric-related transport properties...


2018 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Courneya ◽  
Alexa Mayo

Despite having an ideal setup in their labs for wet work, researchers often lack the computational infrastructure to analyze the magnitude of data that result from “-omics” experiments. In this innovative project, the library supports analysis of high-throughput data from global molecular profiling experiments by offering a high-performance computer with open source software along with expert bioinformationist support. The audience for this new service is faculty, staff, and students for whom using the university’s large scale, CORE computational resources is not warranted because these resources exceed the needs of smaller projects. In the library’s approach, users are empowered to analyze high-throughput data that they otherwise would not be able to on their own computers. To develop the project, the library’s bioinformationist identified the ideal computing hardware and a group of open source bioinformatics software to provide analysis options for experimental data such as scientific images, sequence reads, and flow cytometry files. To close the loop between learning and practice, the bioinformationist developed self-guided learning materials and workshops or consultations on topics such as the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s BLAST, Bioinformatics on the Cloud, and ImageJ. Researchers apply the data analysis techniques that they learned in the classroom in an ideal computing environment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 09011
Author(s):  
Michael Hildreth ◽  
Kenyi Paolo Hurtado Anampa ◽  
Cody Kankel ◽  
Scott Hampton ◽  
Paul Brenner ◽  
...  

The NSF-funded Scalable CyberInfrastructure for Artificial Intelligence and Likelihood Free Inference (SCAILFIN) project aims to develop and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and likelihood-free inference (LFI) techniques and software using scalable cyberinfrastructure (CI) built on top of existing CI elements. Specifically, the project has extended the CERN-based REANA framework, a cloud-based data analysis platform deployed on top of Kubernetes clusters that was originally designed to enable analysis reusability and reproducibility. REANA is capable of orchestrating extremely complicated multi-step workflows, and uses Kubernetes clusters both for scheduling and distributing container-based workloads across a cluster of available machines, as well as instantiating and monitoring the concrete workloads themselves. This work describes the challenges and development efforts involved in extending REANA and the components that were developed in order to enable large scale deployment on High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. Using the Virtual Clusters for Community Computation (VC3) infrastructure as a starting point, we implemented REANA to work with a number of differing workload managers, including both high performance and high throughput, while simultaneously removing REANA’s dependence on Kubernetes support at the workers level.


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