Abstract
Anion exchange has been performed with nanoplates of tin sulfide (SnS) via “soft chemical” organic-free solution syntheses to yield layered pseudo-ternary tin chalcogenides on a 10 g-scale. SnS undergoes a topotactic transformation to form a series of S-substituted tin selenide (SnSe) nano/micro-plates with tuneable chalcogenide composition. SnS0.1Se0.9 nanoplates were spark plasma sintered into phase-pure, textured, dense pellets, the ZT of which has been significantly enhanced to ≈1.16 from ≈0.74 at 923 K via microstructure texturing control. These approaches provide versatile, scalable and low-cost routes to p-type layered tin chalcogenides with controllable composition and competitive thermoelectric performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3828-3836 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Chemical Science |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 15 |
| Early online date | 23 Mar 2018 |
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| Publication status | Published - 21 Apr 2018 |