FAN Xi-an;HONG Xiao-jie;WU Zhao-yang;ZHU Cheng-yi;LI Guang-qiang;HOU Yan-hui
. 2013, 44(03): 305-312.
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Microstructure engineering of thermoelectric materials can resolve the conflicts of electrical and thermal transports. Especially, one dimension (1D) Bi2Te3 based thermoelectric nanomaterials have obvious crystal anisotropy and strong quantum confinement effect to improve the thermoelectric figure of merit and converision efficiency. As the most important low-temperature thermoelectric materials, Bi2Te3 materials have broad commercial applications in thermoelectric power generation and cooling. In this paper, the microstructure controlling methods about the morphology parameters (including diameter and length) and crystal plane preferred orientation, growth mechanism and the effect of microstructure on thermoelectric properties are. reviewed in detail in terms of the preparation technology of 1D Bi2Te3 thermoelectric nanomaterials. As a consequence, the future research in 1D Bi2Te3 based thermoelectric nanomaterials should be focused on the exploration of new 1D microstructure controlling methods, perferred orientation and assembly technology, the intrinsical relation between thermoelectric properties and microstructure, and the actual application in the thermal power generation and cooling., Microstructure engineering of thermoelectric materials can resolve the conflicts of electrical and thermal transports. Especially, one dimension (1D) Bi2Te3 based thermoelectric nanomaterials have obvious crystal anisotropy and strong quantum confinement effect to improve the thermoelectric figure of merit and converision efficiency. As the most important low-temperature thermoelectric materials, Bi2Te3 materials have broad commercial applications in thermoelectric power generation and cooling. In this paper, the microstructure controlling methods about the morphology parameters (including diameter and length) and crystal plane preferred orientation, growth mechanism and the effect of microstructure on thermoelectric properties are. reviewed in detail in terms of the preparation technology of 1D Bi2Te3 thermoelectric nanomaterials. As a consequence, the future research in 1D Bi2Te3 based thermoelectric nanomaterials should be focused on the exploration of new 1D microstructure controlling methods, perferred orientation and assembly technology, the intrinsical relation between thermoelectric properties and microstructure, and the actual application in the thermal power generation and cooling.