ISSN:
1662-9779
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Skutterudite materials have received great attention because their promising propertiesfor thermoelectric (TE) applications. Among the family of skutterudites, CoSb3 has been intensivelyinvestigated due to its large electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient. However, its thermalconductivity is too high to make it an effective TE material. Nanostructuring of CoSb3 has thedesirable effects of reducing its lattice thermal conductivity as the point imperfections or grainboundaries can scatter phonons (heat carrier) more effectively than electrons (charge carrier). In thisstudy, nanostructured CoSb3 was synthesized by solvothermal routes using CoCl2·6H2O and SbCl3as precursors dissolved in anhydrous ethanol with the reaction temperature kept at 240°C. Inaddition to the CoSb3 phase, other Co-Sb compounds were also formed during the reaction process.In this paper, we investigated the effects of processing parameters, such as concentration ofCoCl2·6H2O, SbCl3 and NaBH4 in ethanol and thermal duration of solvothermal synthesis, on theyield of CoSb3 phase
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/02/24/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FSSP.136.57.pdf
