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3D Printing: 3D Printing Fabrication of Amorphous Thermoelectric Materials with Ultralow Thermal Conductivity (Small 44/2015)
Author(s) -
He Minhong,
Zhao Yan,
Wang Biao,
Xi Qing,
Zhou Jun,
Liang Ziqi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201570266
Subject(s) - spark plasma sintering , fabrication , materials science , thermal conductivity , amorphous solid , thermoelectric materials , thermoelectric effect , sintering , 3d printing , nanotechnology , hot pressing , pressing , spark (programming language) , thermal , thermoelectric generator , composite material , optoelectronics , computer science , crystallography , thermodynamics , medicine , chemistry , alternative medicine , physics , pathology , meteorology , programming language
J. Zhou, Z. Liang, and co‐workers successfully apply 3D printing technology to prepare thermoelectric materials. On page 5889, such 3D‐fabricated Bi 0.5 Sb 1.5 Te 3 samples exhibit amorphous characteristics and thus show an ultralow thermal conductivity of 0.2 W m −1 K −1 . Of unique importance, 3D printing fabrication enables the ready generation of shaped bulk TE samples which can hardly be created by traditional hot‐pressing and spark plasma sintering methods.