title: Thickness Effects for Thermoelectric Property of Antimony Telluride Nanoplatelets via Solvothermal Method.
abstract: Nanostructures have the potential to exhibit good thermoelectric properties by tuning and controlling their size and thickness, and the competing electrical and thermal properties can be decoupled by engineering the interface and grain boundary. In the present study, Sb2Te3nanoplatelets with different sizes were fabricated using a practical solvothermal method. The thickness of the platelets were regulated between sizes of 10 nm and 100 nm, and the opposite edge length was varied between 1 and 10 μm by altering chemical conditions. Consequently, manipulating the grain size made it suitable to benefit the carrier transport and also block phonons for the thin platelets, resulting in a significant decrease in thermal conductivity and simultaneous increase in electrical conductivity. The results showed that the optimized figure of merit ZT, increased from 0.2 to 1.0 for thin samples, providing a comprehensive understanding of size-dependent thermoelectric performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.|Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wuhan Third Hospital, Wuhan 430060, China.
authors.forename: Xinxin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: School of Science, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China.
authors.forename: Wenwen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: School of Science, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, China.
authors.forename: Fengming
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
authors.forename: Shuhua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: College of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi 435002, China.
authors.forename: Ziyu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang