Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length Optimization

Summary: Silver selenide is considered as a promising room temperature thermoelectric material due to its excellent performance and high abundance. However, the silver selenide-based flexible film is still behind in thermoelectric performance compared with its bulk counterpart. In this work, the com...

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Main Authors: Jie Gao, Lei Miao, Huajun Lai, Sijing Zhu, Ying Peng, Xiaoyang Wang, Kunihito Koumoto, Huanfu Cai
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Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
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author Jie Gao
Lei Miao
Huajun Lai
Sijing Zhu
Ying Peng
Xiaoyang Wang
Kunihito Koumoto
Huanfu Cai
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Lei Miao
Huajun Lai
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Xiaoyang Wang
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description Summary: Silver selenide is considered as a promising room temperature thermoelectric material due to its excellent performance and high abundance. However, the silver selenide-based flexible film is still behind in thermoelectric performance compared with its bulk counterpart. In this work, the composition of paper-supported silver selenide film was successfully modulated through changing reactant ratio and annealing treatment. In consequence, the power factor value of 2450.9 ± 364.4 μW/(mK2) at 303 K, which is close to that of state-of-the-art bulk Ag2Se has been achieved. Moreover, a thermoelectric device was fabricated after optimizing the length of annealed silver selenide film via numerical simulation. At temperature difference of 25 K, the maximum power density of this device reaches 5.80 W/m2, which is superior to that of previous film thermoelectric devices. Theoretically and experimentally, this work provides an effective way to achieve silver-selenide-based flexible thermoelectric film and device with high performance. : Electrochemical Materials Science; Materials Synthesis; Energy Materials Subject Areas: Electrochemical Materials Science, Materials Synthesis, Energy Materials
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spelling doaj.art-62dff7de1f13403fb0eaee52c730688c2022-12-22T01:18:51ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422020-01-01231Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length OptimizationJie Gao0Lei Miao1Huajun Lai2Sijing Zhu3Ying Peng4Xiaoyang Wang5Kunihito Koumoto6Huanfu Cai7Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China; Corresponding authorGuangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China; Department of Materials Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, JapanGuangxi Key Laboratory of Information Material, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China; Department of Chemical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, JapanNagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Nagoya 464-0819, Japan; Center of Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi ArabiaSchool of Internet Finance and Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou 510520, ChinaSummary: Silver selenide is considered as a promising room temperature thermoelectric material due to its excellent performance and high abundance. However, the silver selenide-based flexible film is still behind in thermoelectric performance compared with its bulk counterpart. In this work, the composition of paper-supported silver selenide film was successfully modulated through changing reactant ratio and annealing treatment. In consequence, the power factor value of 2450.9 ± 364.4 μW/(mK2) at 303 K, which is close to that of state-of-the-art bulk Ag2Se has been achieved. Moreover, a thermoelectric device was fabricated after optimizing the length of annealed silver selenide film via numerical simulation. At temperature difference of 25 K, the maximum power density of this device reaches 5.80 W/m2, which is superior to that of previous film thermoelectric devices. Theoretically and experimentally, this work provides an effective way to achieve silver-selenide-based flexible thermoelectric film and device with high performance. : Electrochemical Materials Science; Materials Synthesis; Energy Materials Subject Areas: Electrochemical Materials Science, Materials Synthesis, Energy Materialshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004219304985
spellingShingle Jie Gao
Lei Miao
Huajun Lai
Sijing Zhu
Ying Peng
Xiaoyang Wang
Kunihito Koumoto
Huanfu Cai
Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length Optimization
iScience
title Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length Optimization
title_full Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length Optimization
title_fullStr Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length Optimization
title_full_unstemmed Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length Optimization
title_short Thermoelectric Flexible Silver Selenide Films: Compositional and Length Optimization
title_sort thermoelectric flexible silver selenide films compositional and length optimization
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004219304985
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