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Title: Study of conventional sintered Cu2Se thermoelectric material
Authors: Shi, D 
Geng, Z 
Lam, KH 
Issue Date: 2019
Source: Energies, 2019, v. 12, no. 3, 401
Abstract: Lead-free thermoelectric material, copper chalcogenides, have been attracting much interest from many research and industrial applications owing to their high capability of harvesting energy from heat. The state-of-the-art copper chalcogenides are commonly fabricated by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) and hot pressing (HP) techniques. Those methods are still costly and complicated particularly when compared to the conventional solid-state sintering method. Here, we report an easy-to-fabricate lead-free copper(I)-selenium (Cu2Se) that was fabricated using the conventional sintering method. The fabrication conditions, including sintering temperature and dwelling time, have been systematically studied to optimize the thermoelectric performance of Cu2Se. The optimized zT value for the pure Cu2Se was found to be 1.2 for the sample sintered at 1173 K for 2 h. The study shows that Cu2Se developed using the simple and low-cost techniques could exhibit comparable thermoelectric performance when compared with those fabricated by the SPS method, which provides an alternative potential technique to synthesize high-performance thermoelectric materials in a cost-effective way for industrialization.
Keywords: Conventional sintering method
Copper selenide
Thermoelectric material
Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Journal: Energies 
EISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en12030401
Rights: © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The following publication Shi D, Geng Z, Lam KH. Study of Conventional Sintered Cu2Se Thermoelectric Material. Energies. 2019; 12(3):401 is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030401
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