Abstract:
A bulk thermoelectric material having a structure in which migration of carriers is not inhibited but phonons are scattered is described. The bulk thermoelectric material includes: a bulk crystalline thermoelectric material matrix; and nanoparticles coated with a conductive material within the thermoelectric material matrix.
Abstract:
A thermoelectric material including: a bismuth-tellurium (Bi—Te)-based thermoelectric material matrix; and a nano-metal component distributed in the Bi—Te-based thermoelectric material matrix, wherein a Lotgering degree of orientation in a c-axis direction is about 0.9 to about 1.
Abstract:
A nanocomposite thermoelectric material, a thermoelectric element including the nanocomposite thermoelectric material, and a thermoelectric module including the thermoelectric element are disclosed herein. The nanocomposite thermoelectric material includes highly electrically conductive nano metallic particles that are uniformly dispersed in a thermoelectric material matrix. Thus, the nanocomposite thermoelectric material has high thermoelectric performance, and thus, may be used in a wide range of thermoelectric elements and thermoelectric modules.
Abstract:
A thermoelectric nano-composite including a thermoelectric matrix; a nano-metal particle; and a nano-thermoelectric material represented by Formula 1: AxMyBz Formula 1 wherein A includes at least one element of indium, bismuth, or antimony, B includes at least one element of tellurium or selenium (Se), M includes at least one element of gallium, thallium, lead, rubidium, sodium, or lithium, x is greater than 0 and less than or equal to about 4, y is greater than 0 and less than or equal to about 4, and z is greater than 0 and less than or equal to about 3.
Abstract:
A fuel electrode material, a method of preparing the fuel electrode material and a solid oxide fuel cell including the fuel electrode material. The fuel electrode material includes a metal oxide bound to a surface of particles, the particles including nickel, copper or a combination thereof, wherein the metal oxide is an oxide of a metal element selected from the group consisting of cerium, titanium, silicon, aluminum, zirconium and a combination including at least one of the foregoing.
Abstract:
A bulk thermoelectric material includes a matrix, the matrix including a crystalline thermoelectric material; and metal oxide particles disposed in the matrix at a grain boundary or within a crystal structure of the crystalline thermoelectric material.