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ICN2 was supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN/AEI (Grant No.: CEX2021-001214-S) and was funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. J.L. is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the ICREA Academia program and projects MICINN/FEDER PID2021-124572OB-C31 and 2021 SGR 01061. K.H.L. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22208293). This study is part of the Advanced Materials programme and was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat de Catalunya.","isi":1,"file":[{"access_level":"open_access","checksum":"1f743eaf4fc988cd30102b7c2f12c15d","date_updated":"2024-07-16T07:54:21Z","relation":"main_file","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","file_name":"2024_ACSAppElecMaterials_Nan.pdf","file_size":5851865,"success":1,"date_created":"2024-07-16T07:54:21Z","file_id":"17250"}],"publication_status":"published","type":"journal_article","date_updated":"2025-04-14T09:29:33Z","issue":"5","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"title":"Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature","author":[{"last_name":"Nan","full_name":"Nan, Bingfei","first_name":"Bingfei"},{"first_name":"Mengyao","full_name":"Li, Mengyao","last_name":"Li"},{"last_name":"Zhang","full_name":"Zhang, Yu","first_name":"Yu"},{"first_name":"Ke","full_name":"Xiao, Ke","last_name":"Xiao"},{"full_name":"Lim, Khak Ho","first_name":"Khak Ho","last_name":"Lim"},{"last_name":"Chang","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng"},{"last_name":"Han","first_name":"Xu","full_name":"Han, Xu"},{"first_name":"Yong","full_name":"Zuo, Yong","last_name":"Zuo"},{"first_name":"Junshan","full_name":"Li, Junshan","last_name":"Li"},{"last_name":"Arbiol","first_name":"Jordi","full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi"},{"full_name":"Llorca, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi","last_name":"Llorca"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"}],"quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"American Chemical Society","ddc":["540"],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","status":"public","date_published":"2024-05-28T00:00:00Z","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)"},"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2637-6113"]},"oa_version":"Published Version","doi":"10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055","citation":{"ama":"Nan B, Li M, Zhang Y, et al. Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature. <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>. 2024;6(5):2807-215. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>","ieee":"B. Nan <i>et al.</i>, “Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature,” <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>, vol. 6, no. 5. American Chemical Society, pp. 2807–215, 2024.","chicago":"Nan, Bingfei, Mengyao Li, Yu Zhang, Ke Xiao, Khak Ho Lim, Cheng Chang, Xu Han, et al. “Engineering of Thermoelectric Composites Based on Silver Selenide in Aqueous Solution and Ambient Temperature.” <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>. American Chemical Society, 2024. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>.","apa":"Nan, B., Li, M., Zhang, Y., Xiao, K., Lim, K. H., Chang, C., … Cabot, A. (2024). Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature. <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>","short":"B. Nan, M. Li, Y. Zhang, K. Xiao, K.H. Lim, C. Chang, X. Han, Y. Zuo, J. Li, J. Arbiol, J. Llorca, M. Ibáñez, A. Cabot, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 6 (2024) 2807–215.","mla":"Nan, Bingfei, et al. “Engineering of Thermoelectric Composites Based on Silver Selenide in Aqueous Solution and Ambient Temperature.” <i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials</i>, vol. 6, no. 5, American Chemical Society, 2024, pp. 2807–215, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055\">10.1021/acsaelm.3c00055</a>.","ista":"Nan B, Li M, Zhang Y, Xiao K, Lim KH, Chang C, Han X, Zuo Y, Li J, Arbiol J, Llorca J, Ibáñez M, Cabot A. 2024. Engineering of thermoelectric composites based on silver selenide in aqueous solution and ambient temperature. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 6(5), 2807–215."},"_id":"13093","intvolume":"         6","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"page":"2807-215","scopus_import":"1","abstract":[{"text":"The direct, solid state, and reversible conversion between heat and electricity using thermoelectric devices finds numerous potential uses, especially around room temperature. However, the relatively high material processing cost limits their real applications. Silver selenide (Ag2Se) is one of the very few n-type thermoelectric (TE) materials for room-temperature applications. Herein, we report a room temperature, fast, and aqueous-phase synthesis approach to produce Ag2Se, which can be extended to other metal chalcogenides. These materials reach TE figures of merit (zT) of up to 0.76 at 380 K. To improve these values, bismuth sulfide (Bi2S3) particles also prepared in an aqueous solution are incorporated into the Ag2Se matrix. In this way, a series of Ag2Se/Bi2S3 composites with Bi2S3 wt % of 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 are prepared by solution blending and hot-press sintering. The presence of Bi2S3 significantly improves the Seebeck coefficient and power factor while at the same time decreasing the thermal conductivity with no apparent drop in electrical conductivity. Thus, a maximum zT value of 0.96 is achieved in the composites with 1.0 wt % Bi2S3 at 370 K. Furthermore, a high average zT value (zTave) of 0.93 in the 300–390 K range is demonstrated.","lang":"eng"}],"oa":1,"pmid":1,"month":"05","publication":"ACS Applied Electronic Materials","date_created":"2023-05-28T22:01:03Z"},{"month":"01","date_created":"2023-01-22T23:00:55Z","publication":"Chemistry of Materials","pmid":1,"oa":1,"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"High carrier mobility is critical to improving thermoelectric performance over a broad temperature range. However, traditional doping inevitably deteriorates carrier mobility. Herein, we develop a strategy for fine tuning of defects to improve carrier mobility. To begin, n-type PbTe is created by compensating for the intrinsic Pb vacancy in bare PbTe. Excess Pb2+ reduces vacancy scattering, resulting in a high carrier mobility of ∼3400 cm2 V–1 s–1. Then, excess Ag is introduced to compensate for the remaining intrinsic Pb vacancies. We find that excess Ag exhibits a dynamic doping process with increasing temperatures, increasing both the carrier concentration and carrier mobility throughout a wide temperature range; specifically, an ultrahigh carrier mobility ∼7300 cm2 V–1 s–1 is obtained for Pb1.01Te + 0.002Ag at 300 K. Moreover, the dynamic doping-induced high carrier concentration suppresses the bipolar thermal conductivity at high temperatures. The final step is using iodine to optimize the carrier concentration to ∼1019 cm–3. Ultimately, a maximum ZT value of ∼1.5 and a large average ZTave value of ∼1.0 at 300–773 K are obtained for Pb1.01Te0.998I0.002 + 0.002Ag. These findings demonstrate that fine tuning of defects with <0.5% impurities can remarkably enhance carrier mobility and improve thermoelectric performance."}],"scopus_import":"1","page":"755-763","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"intvolume":"        35","corr_author":"1","_id":"12331","citation":{"mla":"Wang, Siqi, et al. “Fine Tuning of Defects Enables High Carrier Mobility and Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of N-Type PbTe.” <i>Chemistry of Materials</i>, vol. 35, no. 2, American Chemical Society, 2023, pp. 755–63, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542\">10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542</a>.","ista":"Wang S, Chang C, Bai S, Qin B, Zhu Y, Zhan S, Zheng J, Tang S, Zhao LD. 2023. Fine tuning of defects enables high carrier mobility and enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe. Chemistry of Materials. 35(2), 755–763.","short":"S. Wang, C. Chang, S. Bai, B. Qin, Y. Zhu, S. Zhan, J. Zheng, S. Tang, L.D. Zhao, Chemistry of Materials 35 (2023) 755–763.","ama":"Wang S, Chang C, Bai S, et al. Fine tuning of defects enables high carrier mobility and enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe. <i>Chemistry of Materials</i>. 2023;35(2):755-763. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542\">10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542</a>","chicago":"Wang, Siqi, Cheng Chang, Shulin Bai, Bingchao Qin, Yingcai Zhu, Shaoping Zhan, Junqing Zheng, Shuwei Tang, and Li Dong Zhao. “Fine Tuning of Defects Enables High Carrier Mobility and Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of N-Type PbTe.” <i>Chemistry of Materials</i>. American Chemical Society, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542</a>.","ieee":"S. Wang <i>et al.</i>, “Fine tuning of defects enables high carrier mobility and enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe,” <i>Chemistry of Materials</i>, vol. 35, no. 2. American Chemical Society, pp. 755–763, 2023.","apa":"Wang, S., Chang, C., Bai, S., Qin, B., Zhu, Y., Zhan, S., … Zhao, L. D. (2023). Fine tuning of defects enables high carrier mobility and enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe. <i>Chemistry of Materials</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542</a>"},"oa_version":"Published Version","doi":"10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03542","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0897-4756"],"eissn":["1520-5002"]},"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)"},"date_published":"2023-01-24T00:00:00Z","status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","ddc":["540"],"publisher":"American Chemical Society","quality_controlled":"1","author":[{"full_name":"Wang, Siqi","first_name":"Siqi","last_name":"Wang"},{"last_name":"Chang","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng"},{"first_name":"Shulin","full_name":"Bai, Shulin","last_name":"Bai"},{"last_name":"Qin","first_name":"Bingchao","full_name":"Qin, Bingchao"},{"last_name":"Zhu","full_name":"Zhu, Yingcai","first_name":"Yingcai"},{"first_name":"Shaoping","full_name":"Zhan, Shaoping","last_name":"Zhan"},{"last_name":"Zheng","first_name":"Junqing","full_name":"Zheng, Junqing"},{"last_name":"Tang","full_name":"Tang, Shuwei","first_name":"Shuwei"},{"last_name":"Zhao","first_name":"Li Dong","full_name":"Zhao, Li Dong"}],"title":"Fine tuning of defects enables high carrier mobility and enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","issue":"2","has_accepted_license":"1","date_updated":"2025-04-23T08:47:37Z","type":"journal_article","publication_status":"published","file":[{"checksum":"b21dca2aa7a80c068bc256bdd1fea9df","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2023-08-14T12:57:25Z","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","file_name":"2023_ChemistryMaterials_Wang.pdf","relation":"main_file","date_created":"2023-08-14T12:57:25Z","file_id":"14055","success":1,"file_size":2961043}],"isi":1,"acknowledgement":"The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFA0702100), the Basic Science Center Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51788104), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51571007 and 51772012), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (JQ18004), the 111 Project (B17002), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (51925101), and the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” (grant agreement M2889-N). Open Access is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).","volume":35,"year":"2023","day":"24","article_type":"original","project":[{"grant_number":"M02889","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"external_id":{"isi":["000914749700001"],"pmid":["36711054"]},"file_date_updated":"2023-08-14T12:57:25Z"},{"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)"},"publication_identifier":{"issn":["1944-8244"],"eissn":["1944-8252"]},"status":"public","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","date_published":"2023-05-04T00:00:00Z","oa":1,"month":"05","date_created":"2023-05-28T22:01:03Z","publication":"ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces","pmid":1,"scopus_import":"1","abstract":[{"text":"There is a need for the development of lead-free thermoelectric materials for medium-/high-temperature applications. Here, we report a thiol-free tin telluride (SnTe) precursor that can be thermally decomposed to produce SnTe crystals with sizes ranging from tens to several hundreds of nanometers. We further engineer SnTe–Cu2SnTe3 nanocomposites with a homogeneous phase distribution by decomposing the liquid SnTe precursor containing a dispersion of Cu1.5Te colloidal nanoparticles. The presence of Cu within the SnTe and the segregated semimetallic Cu2SnTe3 phase effectively improves the electrical conductivity of SnTe while simultaneously reducing the lattice thermal conductivity without compromising the Seebeck coefficient. Overall, power factors up to 3.63 mW m–1 K–2 and thermoelectric figures of merit up to 1.04 are obtained at 823 K, which represent a 167% enhancement compared with pristine SnTe.","lang":"eng"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"page":"23380–23389","citation":{"ama":"Nan B, Song X, Chang C, et al. Bottom-up synthesis of SnTe-based thermoelectric composites. <i>ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces</i>. 2023;15(19):23380–23389. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00625\">10.1021/acsami.3c00625</a>","ieee":"B. Nan <i>et al.</i>, “Bottom-up synthesis of SnTe-based thermoelectric composites,” <i>ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces</i>, vol. 15, no. 19. American Chemical Society, pp. 23380–23389, 2023.","chicago":"Nan, Bingfei, Xuan Song, Cheng Chang, Ke Xiao, Yu Zhang, Linlin Yang, Sharona Horta, et al. “Bottom-up Synthesis of SnTe-Based Thermoelectric Composites.” <i>ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces</i>. American Chemical Society, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00625\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00625</a>.","apa":"Nan, B., Song, X., Chang, C., Xiao, K., Zhang, Y., Yang, L., … Cabot, A. (2023). Bottom-up synthesis of SnTe-based thermoelectric composites. <i>ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00625\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00625</a>","short":"B. Nan, X. Song, C. Chang, K. Xiao, Y. Zhang, L. Yang, S. Horta, J. Li, K.H. Lim, M. Ibáñez, A. Cabot, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 15 (2023) 23380–23389.","mla":"Nan, Bingfei, et al. “Bottom-up Synthesis of SnTe-Based Thermoelectric Composites.” <i>ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces</i>, vol. 15, no. 19, American Chemical Society, 2023, pp. 23380–23389, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00625\">10.1021/acsami.3c00625</a>.","ista":"Nan B, Song X, Chang C, Xiao K, Zhang Y, Yang L, Horta S, Li J, Lim KH, Ibáñez M, Cabot A. 2023. Bottom-up synthesis of SnTe-based thermoelectric composites. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 15(19), 23380–23389."},"oa_version":"Published Version","doi":"10.1021/acsami.3c00625","intvolume":"        15","corr_author":"1","_id":"13092","acknowledgement":"Open Access is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). We thank Generalitat de Catalunya AGAUR─2021 SGR 01581 for financial support. B.F.N., K.X., and L.L.Y. thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the scholarship support. C.C. acknowledges funding from the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N. J.S.L is grateful to the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province for the project no. 22NSFSC0966. K.H.L. was supported by the Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou (IZQ2021RCZX003). M.I. acknowledges the financial support from IST Austria.","isi":1,"day":"04","volume":15,"year":"2023","project":[{"name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","grant_number":"M02889"}],"external_id":{"pmid":["37141543"],"isi":["000985497900001"]},"article_type":"original","file_date_updated":"2023-05-30T07:38:44Z","ddc":["540"],"publisher":"American Chemical Society","quality_controlled":"1","author":[{"last_name":"Nan","full_name":"Nan, Bingfei","first_name":"Bingfei"},{"last_name":"Song","first_name":"Xuan","full_name":"Song, Xuan"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","last_name":"Chang","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng"},{"first_name":"Ke","full_name":"Xiao, Ke","last_name":"Xiao"},{"last_name":"Zhang","full_name":"Zhang, Yu","first_name":"Yu"},{"full_name":"Yang, Linlin","first_name":"Linlin","last_name":"Yang"},{"first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","last_name":"Horta","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc"},{"first_name":"Junshan","full_name":"Li, Junshan","last_name":"Li"},{"full_name":"Lim, Khak Ho","first_name":"Khak Ho","last_name":"Lim"},{"first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"issue":"19","has_accepted_license":"1","date_updated":"2025-04-14T09:29:33Z","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"title":"Bottom-up synthesis of SnTe-based thermoelectric composites","article_processing_charge":"No","file":[{"file_id":"13099","date_created":"2023-05-30T07:38:44Z","success":1,"file_size":5640829,"file_name":"2023_ACSAppliedMaterials_Nan.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","relation":"main_file","date_updated":"2023-05-30T07:38:44Z","checksum":"23893be46763c4c78daacddd019de821","access_level":"open_access"}],"type":"journal_article","publication_status":"published"},{"author":[{"first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","last_name":"Chang","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425"},{"last_name":"Liu","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Yu","full_name":"Liu, Yu"},{"full_name":"Lee, Seungho","first_name":"Seungho","id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598","last_name":"Lee"},{"full_name":"Spadaro, Maria","first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Spadaro"},{"full_name":"Koskela, Kristopher M.","first_name":"Kristopher M.","last_name":"Koskela"},{"id":"8BD9DE16-AB3C-11E9-9C8C-2A03E6697425","last_name":"Kleinhanns","full_name":"Kleinhanns, Tobias","first_name":"Tobias"},{"full_name":"Costanzo, Tommaso","first_name":"Tommaso","id":"D93824F4-D9BA-11E9-BB12-F207E6697425","orcid":"0000-0001-9732-3815","last_name":"Costanzo"},{"first_name":"Jordi","full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","last_name":"Arbiol"},{"last_name":"Brutchey","full_name":"Brutchey, Richard L.","first_name":"Richard L."},{"id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria"}],"quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"Wiley","ddc":["540"],"file":[{"relation":"main_file","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","file_name":"2022_AngewandteChemieInternat_Chang.pdf","file_size":4072650,"success":1,"date_created":"2023-02-02T08:01:00Z","file_id":"12476","access_level":"open_access","checksum":"ad601f2b9e26e46ab4785162be58b5ed","date_updated":"2023-02-02T08:01:00Z"}],"publication_status":"published","type":"journal_article","date_updated":"2025-04-14T07:44:07Z","issue":"35","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","title":"Surface functionalization of surfactant-free particles: A strategy to tailor the properties of nanocomposites for enhanced thermoelectric performance","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"},{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"day":"26","year":"2022","volume":61,"acknowledgement":"This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of IST Austria through resources provided by Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF). This work was financially supported by IST Austria and the Werner Siemens Foundation. C.C. acknowledges funding from the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N. Lise Meitner Project (M2889-N). Y.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754411. R.L.B. thanks the National Science Foundation for support under DMR-1904719. MCS acknowledge MINECO Juan de la Cierva Incorporation fellowship (JdlCI 2019) and Severo Ochoa. M.C.S. and J.A. acknowledge funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2017 SGR 327. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MINECO (Grant no. SEV-2017-0706) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. This study was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and Generalitat de Catalunya.","isi":1,"file_date_updated":"2023-02-02T08:01:00Z","external_id":{"pmid":["38505739"],"isi":["000828274200001"]},"project":[{"grant_number":"M02889","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications"},{"name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships","_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"754411"}],"article_type":"original","scopus_import":"1","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The broad implementation of thermoelectricity requires high-performance and low-cost materials. One possibility is employing surfactant-free solution synthesis to produce nanopowders. We propose the strategy of functionalizing “naked” particles’ surface by inorganic molecules to control the nanostructure and, consequently, thermoelectric performance. In particular, we use bismuth thiolates to functionalize surfactant-free SnTe particles’ surfaces. Upon thermal processing, bismuth thiolates decomposition renders SnTe-Bi2S3 nanocomposites with synergistic functions: 1) carrier concentration optimization by Bi doping; 2) Seebeck coefficient enhancement and bipolar effect suppression by energy filtering; and 3) lattice thermal conductivity reduction by small grain domains, grain boundaries and nanostructuration. Overall, the SnTe-Bi2S3 nanocomposites exhibit peak z T up to 1.3 at 873 K and an average z T of ≈0.6 at 300–873 K, which is among the highest reported for solution-processed SnTe."}],"ec_funded":1,"oa":1,"pmid":1,"publication":"Angewandte Chemie - International Edition","date_created":"2022-07-31T22:01:48Z","month":"08","doi":"10.1002/anie.202207002","oa_version":"Published Version","citation":{"ama":"Chang C, Liu Y, Lee S, et al. Surface functionalization of surfactant-free particles: A strategy to tailor the properties of nanocomposites for enhanced thermoelectric performance. <i>Angewandte Chemie - International Edition</i>. 2022;61(35). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202207002\">10.1002/anie.202207002</a>","chicago":"Chang, Cheng, Yu Liu, Seungho Lee, Maria Spadaro, Kristopher M. Koskela, Tobias Kleinhanns, Tommaso Costanzo, Jordi Arbiol, Richard L. Brutchey, and Maria Ibáñez. “Surface Functionalization of Surfactant-Free Particles: A Strategy to Tailor the Properties of Nanocomposites for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>Angewandte Chemie - International Edition</i>. Wiley, 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202207002\">https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202207002</a>.","apa":"Chang, C., Liu, Y., Lee, S., Spadaro, M., Koskela, K. M., Kleinhanns, T., … Ibáñez, M. (2022). Surface functionalization of surfactant-free particles: A strategy to tailor the properties of nanocomposites for enhanced thermoelectric performance. <i>Angewandte Chemie - International Edition</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202207002\">https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202207002</a>","ieee":"C. Chang <i>et al.</i>, “Surface functionalization of surfactant-free particles: A strategy to tailor the properties of nanocomposites for enhanced thermoelectric performance,” <i>Angewandte Chemie - International Edition</i>, vol. 61, no. 35. Wiley, 2022.","short":"C. Chang, Y. Liu, S. Lee, M. Spadaro, K.M. Koskela, T. Kleinhanns, T. Costanzo, J. Arbiol, R.L. Brutchey, M. Ibáñez, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 61 (2022).","mla":"Chang, Cheng, et al. “Surface Functionalization of Surfactant-Free Particles: A Strategy to Tailor the Properties of Nanocomposites for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>Angewandte Chemie - International Edition</i>, vol. 61, no. 35, e202207002, Wiley, 2022, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202207002\">10.1002/anie.202207002</a>.","ista":"Chang C, Liu Y, Lee S, Spadaro M, Koskela KM, Kleinhanns T, Costanzo T, Arbiol J, Brutchey RL, Ibáñez M. 2022. Surface functionalization of surfactant-free particles: A strategy to tailor the properties of nanocomposites for enhanced thermoelectric performance. 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MYL, YZ, DWY and KX thank the China Scholarship Council for scholarship support. YL acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754411 and the funding for scientific research startup of Hefei University of Technology (No. 13020-03712021049). MI acknowledges funding from IST Austria and the Werner Siemens Foundation. CC acknowledges funding from the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N. TZ has received funding from the CSC-UAB PhD scholarship program. ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2017 SGR 327. ICN2 thanks support from the project NANOGEN (PID2020-116093RB-C43), funded by MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MINECO (Grant No. SEV-2017-0706) and is funded by the CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya. Part of the present work has been performed in the framework of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Materials Science PhD program.","volume":433,"year":"2022","day":"01","article_type":"original","project":[{"call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"754411","_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships"},{"grant_number":"M02889","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications"},{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"external_id":{"isi":["000773425200006"]},"date_created":"2021-12-19T23:01:33Z","month":"04","publication":"Chemical Engineering Journal","oa":1,"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"A versatile, scalable, room temperature and surfactant-free route for the synthesis of metal chalcogenide nanoparticles in aqueous solution is detailed here for the production of PbS and Cu-doped PbS nanoparticles. Subsequently, nanoparticles are annealed in a reducing atmosphere to remove surface oxide, and consolidated into dense polycrystalline materials by means of spark plasma sintering. By characterizing the transport properties of the sintered material, we observe the annealing step and the incorporation of Cu to play a key role in promoting the thermoelectric performance of PbS. The presence of Cu allows improving the electrical conductivity by increasing the charge carrier concentration and simultaneously maintaining a large charge carrier mobility, which overall translates into record power factors at ambient temperature, 2.3 mWm-1K−2. Simultaneously, the lattice thermal conductivity decreases with the introduction of Cu, leading to a record high ZT = 0.37 at room temperature and ZT = 1.22 at 773 K. Besides, a record average ZTave = 0.76 is demonstrated in the temperature range 320–773 K for n-type Pb0.955Cu0.045S."}],"scopus_import":"1","ec_funded":1,"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"intvolume":"       433","corr_author":"1","_id":"10566","citation":{"chicago":"Li, Mengyao, Yu Liu, Yu Zhang, Cheng Chang, Ting Zhang, Dawei Yang, Ke Xiao, Jordi Arbiol, Maria Ibáñez, and Andreu Cabot. “Room Temperature Aqueous-Based Synthesis of Copper-Doped Lead Sulfide Nanoparticles for Thermoelectric Application.” <i>Chemical Engineering Journal</i>. Elsevier, 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837</a>.","ieee":"M. Li <i>et al.</i>, “Room temperature aqueous-based synthesis of copper-doped lead sulfide nanoparticles for thermoelectric application,” <i>Chemical Engineering Journal</i>, vol. 433. Elsevier, 2022.","apa":"Li, M., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Chang, C., Zhang, T., Yang, D., … Cabot, A. (2022). Room temperature aqueous-based synthesis of copper-doped lead sulfide nanoparticles for thermoelectric application. <i>Chemical Engineering Journal</i>. Elsevier. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837</a>","ama":"Li M, Liu Y, Zhang Y, et al. Room temperature aqueous-based synthesis of copper-doped lead sulfide nanoparticles for thermoelectric application. <i>Chemical Engineering Journal</i>. 2022;433. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837\">10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837</a>","ista":"Li M, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Chang C, Zhang T, Yang D, Xiao K, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M, Cabot A. 2022. Room temperature aqueous-based synthesis of copper-doped lead sulfide nanoparticles for thermoelectric application. Chemical Engineering Journal. 433, 133837.","mla":"Li, Mengyao, et al. “Room Temperature Aqueous-Based Synthesis of Copper-Doped Lead Sulfide Nanoparticles for Thermoelectric Application.” <i>Chemical Engineering Journal</i>, vol. 433, 133837, Elsevier, 2022, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837\">10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837</a>.","short":"M. Li, Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, C. Chang, T. Zhang, D. Yang, K. Xiao, J. Arbiol, M. Ibáñez, A. Cabot, Chemical Engineering Journal 433 (2022)."},"doi":"10.1016/j.cej.2021.133837","oa_version":"Submitted Version","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1385-8947"]},"article_number":"133837","date_published":"2022-04-01T00:00:00Z","status":"public","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"volume":25,"year":"2022","day":"01","isi":1,"acknowledgement":"This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (52002042), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFA0702100 and 2018YFB0703600), 111 Project (B17002) and Lise Meitner Project M 2889-N. This work was also supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (BX20200028). L.D.Z. appreciates the support of the high-performance computing (HPC) resources at Beihang University, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (51925101), and center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR) for SEM and TEM measurements.","article_type":"original","project":[{"_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","grant_number":"M02889"}],"external_id":{"isi":["000798679100010"]},"quality_controlled":"1","author":[{"last_name":"Hong","full_name":"Hong, Tao","first_name":"Tao"},{"last_name":"Guo","full_name":"Guo, Changrong","first_name":"Changrong"},{"first_name":"Dongyang","full_name":"Wang, Dongyang","last_name":"Wang"},{"first_name":"Bingchao","full_name":"Qin, Bingchao","last_name":"Qin"},{"id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","last_name":"Chang","full_name":"Chang, Cheng","first_name":"Cheng"},{"last_name":"Gao","full_name":"Gao, Xiang","first_name":"Xiang"},{"last_name":"Zhao","first_name":"Li Dong","full_name":"Zhao, Li Dong"}],"publisher":"Elsevier","type":"journal_article","publication_status":"published","title":"Enhanced thermoelectric performance in SnTe due to the energy filtering effect introduced by Bi2O3","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","date_updated":"2025-04-14T09:29:32Z","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2468-6069"]},"date_published":"2022-04-01T00:00:00Z","status":"public","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","article_number":"100985","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"SnTe is a promising Pb-free thermoelectric (TE) material with high electrical conductivity. We discovered the synergistic effect of Bi2O3 on enhancing the average power factor (PF) and overall ZT value of the SnTe-based thermoelectric material. The introduction of Bi2O3 forms plenty of SnO2, Bi2O3, and Bi-rich nanoprecipitates. These interfaces between the SnTe matrix and the nanoprecipitates can enhance the average PF through the energy filtering effect. On the other hand, abundant and diverse nanoprecipitates can significantly diminish the lattice thermal conductivity (κlat) through enhanced phonon scattering. The synergistic effect of Bi2O3 resulted in a maximum ZT (ZTmax) value of 0.9 at SnTe-2% Bi2O3 and an average ZT (ZTave) value of 0.4 for SnTe-4% Bi2O3 from 300 K to 823 K. The work provides an excellent reference to develop non-toxic high-performance TE materials."}],"scopus_import":"1","publication":"Materials Today Energy","date_created":"2022-04-10T22:01:39Z","month":"04","intvolume":"        25","corr_author":"1","_id":"11142","citation":{"chicago":"Hong, Tao, Changrong Guo, Dongyang Wang, Bingchao Qin, Cheng Chang, Xiang Gao, and Li Dong Zhao. “Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe Due to the Energy Filtering Effect Introduced by Bi2O3.” <i>Materials Today Energy</i>. Elsevier, 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985</a>.","apa":"Hong, T., Guo, C., Wang, D., Qin, B., Chang, C., Gao, X., &#38; Zhao, L. D. (2022). Enhanced thermoelectric performance in SnTe due to the energy filtering effect introduced by Bi2O3. <i>Materials Today Energy</i>. Elsevier. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985</a>","ieee":"T. Hong <i>et al.</i>, “Enhanced thermoelectric performance in SnTe due to the energy filtering effect introduced by Bi2O3,” <i>Materials Today Energy</i>, vol. 25. Elsevier, 2022.","ama":"Hong T, Guo C, Wang D, et al. Enhanced thermoelectric performance in SnTe due to the energy filtering effect introduced by Bi2O3. <i>Materials Today Energy</i>. 2022;25. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985\">10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985</a>","ista":"Hong T, Guo C, Wang D, Qin B, Chang C, Gao X, Zhao LD. 2022. Enhanced thermoelectric performance in SnTe due to the energy filtering effect introduced by Bi2O3. Materials Today Energy. 25, 100985.","mla":"Hong, Tao, et al. “Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe Due to the Energy Filtering Effect Introduced by Bi2O3.” <i>Materials Today Energy</i>, vol. 25, 100985, Elsevier, 2022, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985\">10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985</a>.","short":"T. Hong, C. Guo, D. Wang, B. Qin, C. Chang, X. Gao, L.D. Zhao, Materials Today Energy 25 (2022)."},"doi":"10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100985","oa_version":"None","language":[{"iso":"eng"}]},{"isi":1,"acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the Basic Science Center Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51788104), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFA0702100), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (51925101), the 111 Project (B17002), the Lise Meitner Project (M2889-N), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFB0703600). This work is also supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (BX20200028). L.-D.Z. is thankful for the high-performance computing resources at Beihang University.","year":"2022","volume":375,"day":"25","article_type":"original","external_id":{"isi":["000778894800038"],"pmid":["35324303"]},"project":[{"grant_number":"M02889","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"publisher":"American Association for the Advancement of Science","author":[{"full_name":"Su, Lizhong","first_name":"Lizhong","last_name":"Su"},{"first_name":"Dongyang","full_name":"Wang, Dongyang","last_name":"Wang"},{"last_name":"Wang","full_name":"Wang, Sining","first_name":"Sining"},{"last_name":"Qin","first_name":"Bingchao","full_name":"Qin, Bingchao"},{"first_name":"Yuping","full_name":"Wang, Yuping","last_name":"Wang"},{"first_name":"Yongxin","full_name":"Qin, Yongxin","last_name":"Qin"},{"last_name":"Jin","full_name":"Jin, Yang","first_name":"Yang"},{"first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","last_name":"Chang","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425"},{"full_name":"Zhao, Li Dong","first_name":"Li Dong","last_name":"Zhao"}],"quality_controlled":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"title":"High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling","date_updated":"2025-04-14T09:29:32Z","issue":"6587","publication_status":"published","type":"journal_article","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1095-9203"]},"date_published":"2022-03-25T00:00:00Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","status":"public","pmid":1,"month":"03","publication":"Science","date_created":"2022-04-10T22:01:40Z","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Thermoelectric materials allow for direct conversion between heat and electricity, offering the potential for power generation. The average dimensionless figure of merit ZTave determines device efficiency. N-type tin selenide crystals exhibit outstanding three-dimensional charge and two-dimensional phonon transport along the out-of-plane direction, contributing to a high maximum figure of merit Zmax of ~3.6 × 10−3 per kelvin but a moderate ZTave of ~1.1. We found an attractive high Zmax of ~4.1 × 10−3 per kelvin at 748 kelvin and a ZTave of ~1.7 at 300 to 773 kelvin in chlorine-doped and lead-alloyed tin selenide crystals by phonon-electron decoupling. The chlorine-induced low deformation potential improved the carrier mobility. The lead-induced mass and strain fluctuations reduced the lattice thermal conductivity. Phonon-electron decoupling plays a critical role to achieve high-performance thermoelectrics."}],"scopus_import":"1","page":"1385-1389","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"corr_author":"1","_id":"11144","intvolume":"       375","oa_version":"None","doi":"10.1126/science.abn8997","citation":{"ama":"Su L, Wang D, Wang S, et al. High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling. <i>Science</i>. 2022;375(6587):1385-1389. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8997\">10.1126/science.abn8997</a>","chicago":"Su, Lizhong, Dongyang Wang, Sining Wang, Bingchao Qin, Yuping Wang, Yongxin Qin, Yang Jin, Cheng Chang, and Li Dong Zhao. “High Thermoelectric Performance Realized through Manipulating Layered Phonon-Electron Decoupling.” <i>Science</i>. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8997\">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8997</a>.","apa":"Su, L., Wang, D., Wang, S., Qin, B., Wang, Y., Qin, Y., … Zhao, L. D. (2022). High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling. <i>Science</i>. American Association for the Advancement of Science. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8997\">https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8997</a>","ieee":"L. Su <i>et al.</i>, “High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling,” <i>Science</i>, vol. 375, no. 6587. American Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 1385–1389, 2022.","short":"L. Su, D. Wang, S. Wang, B. Qin, Y. Wang, Y. Qin, Y. Jin, C. Chang, L.D. Zhao, Science 375 (2022) 1385–1389.","mla":"Su, Lizhong, et al. “High Thermoelectric Performance Realized through Manipulating Layered Phonon-Electron Decoupling.” <i>Science</i>, vol. 375, no. 6587, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022, pp. 1385–89, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8997\">10.1126/science.abn8997</a>.","ista":"Su L, Wang D, Wang S, Qin B, Wang Y, Qin Y, Jin Y, Chang C, Zhao LD. 2022. High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling. Science. 375(6587), 1385–1389."}},{"publication_status":"published","type":"journal_article","date_updated":"2025-06-11T13:50:42Z","issue":"11","article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"title":"Distinct electron and hole transports in SnSe crystals","author":[{"full_name":"Chang, Cheng","first_name":"Cheng","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","last_name":"Chang","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277"},{"full_name":"Qin, Bingchao","first_name":"Bingchao","last_name":"Qin"},{"last_name":"Su","full_name":"Su, Lizhong","first_name":"Lizhong"},{"last_name":"Zhao","full_name":"Zhao, Li Dong","first_name":"Li Dong"}],"quality_controlled":"1","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007","open_access":"1"}],"publisher":"Elsevier","external_id":{"isi":["000835291100006"],"pmid":["36545972"]},"project":[{"name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","grant_number":"M02889"}],"article_type":"letter_note","day":"15","year":"2022","volume":67,"acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (51925101), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFA0702100), 111 Project (B17002), and Lise Meitner Project (M2889-N).","isi":1,"doi":"10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007","oa_version":"Published Version","citation":{"ama":"Chang C, Qin B, Su L, Zhao LD. Distinct electron and hole transports in SnSe crystals. <i>Science Bulletin</i>. 2022;67(11):1105-1107. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007\">10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007</a>","chicago":"Chang, Cheng, Bingchao Qin, Lizhong Su, and Li Dong Zhao. “Distinct Electron and Hole Transports in SnSe Crystals.” <i>Science Bulletin</i>. Elsevier, 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007</a>.","ieee":"C. Chang, B. Qin, L. Su, and L. D. Zhao, “Distinct electron and hole transports in SnSe crystals,” <i>Science Bulletin</i>, vol. 67, no. 11. Elsevier, pp. 1105–1107, 2022.","apa":"Chang, C., Qin, B., Su, L., &#38; Zhao, L. D. (2022). Distinct electron and hole transports in SnSe crystals. <i>Science Bulletin</i>. Elsevier. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.04.007</a>","short":"C. Chang, B. Qin, L. Su, L.D. 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Ghosh, M.C. Spadaro, C. Xie, O. Cojocaru-Mirédin, J. Arbiol, M. Ibáñez, ACS Nano 16 (2022) 78–88.","ista":"Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, Lee S, Chang C, David J, Ghosh T, Spadaro MC, Xie C, Cojocaru-Mirédin O, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M. 2022. Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. ACS Nano. 16(1), 78–88.","mla":"Liu, Yu, et al. “Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline SnSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 16, no. 1, American Chemical Society , 2022, pp. 78–88, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>.","ieee":"Y. Liu <i>et al.</i>, “Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance,” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 16, no. 1. American Chemical Society , pp. 78–88, 2022.","apa":"Liu, Y., Calcabrini, M., Yu, Y., Lee, S., Chang, C., David, J., … Ibáñez, M. (2022). Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society . <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>","chicago":"Liu, Yu, Mariano Calcabrini, Yuan Yu, Seungho Lee, Cheng Chang, Jérémy David, Tanmoy Ghosh, et al. “Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline SnSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society , 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>.","ama":"Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, et al. Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. <i>ACS Nano</i>. 2022;16(1):78-88. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>"},"doi":"10.1021/acsnano.1c06720","oa_version":"Published Version","date_created":"2021-09-24T07:55:12Z","month":"01","publication":"ACS Nano","pmid":1,"oa":1,"abstract":[{"text":"SnSe has emerged as one of the most promising materials for thermoelectric energy conversion due to its extraordinary performance in its single-crystal form and its low-cost constituent elements. However, to achieve an economic impact, the polycrystalline counterpart needs to replicate the performance of the single crystal. Herein, we optimize the thermoelectric performance of polycrystalline SnSe produced by consolidating solution-processed and surface-engineered SnSe particles. In particular, the SnSe particles are coated with CdSe molecular complexes that crystallize during the sintering process, forming CdSe nanoparticles. The presence of CdSe nanoparticles inhibits SnSe grain growth during the consolidation step due to Zener pinning, yielding a material with a high density of grain boundaries. Moreover, the resulting SnSe–CdSe nanocomposites present a large number of defects at different length scales, which significantly reduce the thermal conductivity. The produced SnSe–CdSe nanocomposites exhibit thermoelectric figures of merit up to 2.2 at 786 K, which is among the highest reported for solution-processed SnSe.","lang":"eng"}],"scopus_import":"1","ec_funded":1,"related_material":{"record":[{"id":"12885","relation":"dissertation_contains","status":"public"}]},"date_published":"2022-01-25T00:00:00Z","status":"public","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1936-0851"],"eissn":["1936-086X"]},"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)"},"title":"Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","has_accepted_license":"1","issue":"1","date_updated":"2026-04-07T13:26:13Z","type":"journal_article","publication_status":"published","file":[{"checksum":"74f9c1aa5f95c0b992a4328e8e0247b4","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2022-03-02T16:17:29Z","file_name":"2022_ACSNano_Liu.pdf","creator":"cchlebak","content_type":"application/pdf","relation":"main_file","file_id":"10808","date_created":"2022-03-02T16:17:29Z","file_size":9050764,"success":1}],"publisher":"American Chemical Society ","ddc":["540"],"quality_controlled":"1","author":[{"full_name":"Liu, Yu","first_name":"Yu","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Liu","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740"},{"full_name":"Calcabrini, Mariano","first_name":"Mariano","id":"45D7531A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Calcabrini","orcid":"0000-0003-4566-5877"},{"last_name":"Yu","first_name":"Yuan","full_name":"Yu, Yuan"},{"id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598","last_name":"Lee","full_name":"Lee, Seungho","first_name":"Seungho"},{"id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","last_name":"Chang","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","full_name":"Chang, Cheng","first_name":"Cheng"},{"first_name":"Jérémy","full_name":"David, Jérémy","last_name":"David"},{"id":"a5fc9bc3-feff-11ea-93fe-e8015a3c7e9d","last_name":"Ghosh","full_name":"Ghosh, Tanmoy","first_name":"Tanmoy"},{"first_name":"Maria Chiara","full_name":"Spadaro, Maria Chiara","last_name":"Spadaro"},{"last_name":"Xie","full_name":"Xie, Chenyang","first_name":"Chenyang"},{"last_name":"Cojocaru-Mirédin","first_name":"Oana","full_name":"Cojocaru-Mirédin, Oana"},{"full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi","last_name":"Arbiol"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"}],"article_type":"original","project":[{"name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships","_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"754411"},{"name":"International IST Doctoral Program","_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"665385"},{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"},{"_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","grant_number":"M02889"}],"keyword":["tin selenide","nanocomposite","grain growth","Zener pinning","thermoelectricity","annealing","solution processing"],"external_id":{"pmid":["34549956"],"isi":["000767223400008"]},"file_date_updated":"2022-03-02T16:17:29Z","isi":1,"acknowledgement":"This work was financially supported by IST Austria and the Werner Siemens Foundation. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754411. S.L. and M.C. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. J.D. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 665919 (P-SPHERE) cofunded by Severo Ochoa Programme. C.C. acknowledges funding from the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N. Y.Y. and O.C.-M. acknowledge the financial support from DFG within the project SFB 917: Nanoswitches. M.C.S. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754510 (PROBIST) and the Severo Ochoa programme. J.D. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665919 (P-SPHERE) cofunded by Severo Ochoa Programme. The ICN2 is funded by the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya and by the Severo Ochoa program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (MINECO, grant no. SEV-2017-0706). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2017 SGR 327 and the Spanish MINECO project NANOGEN (PID2020-116093RB-C43). This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 823717-ESTEEM3. The FIB sample preparation was conducted in the LMA-INA-Universidad de Zaragoza.","volume":16,"year":"2022","day":"25"},{"user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","status":"public","date_published":"2021-09-19T00:00:00Z","article_number":"5416","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)"},"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1996-1944"]},"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"doi":"10.3390/ma14185416","oa_version":"Published Version","citation":{"chicago":"Chang, Cheng, and Maria Ibáñez. “Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance by Surface Engineering in SnTe-PbS Nanocomposites.” <i>Materials</i>. MDPI, 2021. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14185416\">https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14185416</a>.","ieee":"C. Chang and M. Ibáñez, “Enhanced thermoelectric performance by surface engineering in SnTe-PbS nanocomposites,” <i>Materials</i>, vol. 14, no. 18. MDPI, 2021.","apa":"Chang, C., &#38; Ibáñez, M. (2021). Enhanced thermoelectric performance by surface engineering in SnTe-PbS nanocomposites. <i>Materials</i>. MDPI. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14185416\">https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14185416</a>","ama":"Chang C, Ibáñez M. Enhanced thermoelectric performance by surface engineering in SnTe-PbS nanocomposites. <i>Materials</i>. 2021;14(18). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14185416\">10.3390/ma14185416</a>","mla":"Chang, Cheng, and Maria Ibáñez. “Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance by Surface Engineering in SnTe-PbS Nanocomposites.” <i>Materials</i>, vol. 14, no. 18, 5416, MDPI, 2021, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14185416\">10.3390/ma14185416</a>.","ista":"Chang C, Ibáñez M. 2021. Enhanced thermoelectric performance by surface engineering in SnTe-PbS nanocomposites. Materials. 14(18), 5416.","short":"C. Chang, M. Ibáñez, Materials 14 (2021)."},"_id":"10073","corr_author":"1","intvolume":"        14","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"scopus_import":"1","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion between heat and electricity. SnTe is a promising candidate due to its high charge transport performance. Here, we prepared SnTe nanocomposites by employing an aqueous method to synthetize SnTe nanoparticles (NP), followed by a unique surface treatment prior NP consolidation. This synthetic approach allowed optimizing the charge and phonon transport synergistically. The novelty of this strategy was the use of a soluble PbS molecular complex prepared using a thiol-amine solvent mixture that upon blending is adsorbed on the SnTe NP surface. Upon consolidation with spark plasma sintering, SnTe-PbS nanocomposite is formed. The presence of PbS complexes significantly compensates for the Sn vacancy and increases the average grain size of the nanocomposite, thus improving the carrier mobility. Moreover, lattice thermal conductivity is also reduced by the Pb and S-induced mass and strain fluctuation. As a result, an enhanced ZT of ca. 0.8 is reached at 873 K. Our finding provides a novel strategy to conduct rational surface treatment on NP-based thermoelectrics."}],"oa":1,"pmid":1,"month":"09","date_created":"2021-10-03T22:01:23Z","publication":"Materials","file_date_updated":"2021-10-14T11:56:39Z","external_id":{"pmid":["34576640"],"isi":["000700689400001"]},"project":[{"name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","grant_number":"M02889"}],"article_type":"original","day":"19","year":"2021","volume":14,"acknowledgement":"The authors thank the EMF facility in IST Austria for providing SEM and EDX measurements.\r\n","isi":1,"file":[{"relation":"main_file","creator":"cchlebak","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"2021_Materials_Chang.pdf","success":1,"file_size":4404141,"date_created":"2021-10-14T11:56:39Z","file_id":"10140","access_level":"open_access","checksum":"4929dfc673a3ae77c010b6174279cc1d","date_updated":"2021-10-14T11:56:39Z"}],"publication_status":"published","type":"journal_article","date_updated":"2025-04-14T09:29:32Z","has_accepted_license":"1","issue":"18","article_processing_charge":"Yes","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"title":"Enhanced thermoelectric performance by surface engineering in SnTe-PbS nanocomposites","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","last_name":"Chang","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425","first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"}],"quality_controlled":"1","ddc":["540"],"publisher":"MDPI"},{"oa":1,"date_created":"2021-10-11T20:07:24Z","month":"12","publication":"Advanced Materials","pmid":1,"scopus_import":"1","ec_funded":1,"abstract":[{"text":"Solution synthesis of particles emerged as an alternative to prepare thermoelectric materials with less demanding processing conditions than conventional solid-state synthetic methods. However, solution synthesis generally involves the presence of additional molecules or ions belonging to the precursors or added to enable solubility and/or regulate nucleation and growth. These molecules or ions can end up in the particles as surface adsorbates and interfere in the material properties. This work demonstrates that ionic adsorbates, in particular Na⁺ ions, are electrostatically adsorbed in SnSe particles synthesized in water and play a crucial role not only in directing the material nano/microstructure but also in determining the transport properties of the consolidated material. In dense pellets prepared by sintering SnSe particles, Na remains within the crystal lattice as dopant, in dislocations, precipitates, and forming grain boundary complexions. These results highlight the importance of considering all the possible unintentional impurities to establish proper structure-property relationships and control material properties in solution-processed thermoelectric materials.","lang":"eng"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"citation":{"ama":"Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, et al. The importance of surface adsorbates in solution‐processed thermoelectric materials: The case of SnSe. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. 2021;33(52). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202106858\">10.1002/adma.202106858</a>","apa":"Liu, Y., Calcabrini, M., Yu, Y., Genç, A., Chang, C., Costanzo, T., … Ibáñez, M. (2021). The importance of surface adsorbates in solution‐processed thermoelectric materials: The case of SnSe. <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202106858\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202106858</a>","chicago":"Liu, Yu, Mariano Calcabrini, Yuan Yu, Aziz Genç, Cheng Chang, Tommaso Costanzo, Tobias Kleinhanns, et al. “The Importance of Surface Adsorbates in Solution‐processed Thermoelectric Materials: The Case of SnSe.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>. Wiley, 2021. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202106858\">https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202106858</a>.","ieee":"Y. Liu <i>et al.</i>, “The importance of surface adsorbates in solution‐processed thermoelectric materials: The case of SnSe,” <i>Advanced Materials</i>, vol. 33, no. 52. Wiley, 2021.","short":"Y. Liu, M. Calcabrini, Y. Yu, A. Genç, C. Chang, T. Costanzo, T. Kleinhanns, S. Lee, J. Llorca, O. Cojocaru‐Mirédin, M. Ibáñez, Advanced Materials 33 (2021).","mla":"Liu, Yu, et al. “The Importance of Surface Adsorbates in Solution‐processed Thermoelectric Materials: The Case of SnSe.” <i>Advanced Materials</i>, vol. 33, no. 52, 2106858, Wiley, 2021, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202106858\">10.1002/adma.202106858</a>.","ista":"Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, Genç A, Chang C, Costanzo T, Kleinhanns T, Lee S, Llorca J, Cojocaru‐Mirédin O, Ibáñez M. 2021. The importance of surface adsorbates in solution‐processed thermoelectric materials: The case of SnSe. 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This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of IST Austria through resources provided by Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF). This work was financially supported by IST Austria and the Werner Siemens Foundation. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754411. M.C. has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. Y.Y. and O.C.-M. acknowledge the financial support from DFG within the project SFB 917: Nanoswitches. J.L. is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to ICREA Academia program. C.C. acknowledges funding from the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N.","isi":1,"day":"29","volume":33,"year":"2021","project":[{"grant_number":"665385","call_identifier":"H2020","_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"International IST Doctoral Program"},{"_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"754411"},{"name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications","_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","grant_number":"M02889"},{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"keyword":["mechanical engineering","mechanics of materials","general materials science"],"external_id":{"pmid":["34626034"],"isi":["000709899300001"]},"article_type":"original","file_date_updated":"2022-02-03T13:16:14Z"}]