DOI: 10.1039/c5ta01667c. High thermoelectric and mechanical performance in highly dense Cu<sub>2−x</sub>S bulks prepared by a melt-solidification technique

High thermoelectric and mechanical performance in highly dense Cu2−xS bulks prepared by a melt-solidification technique

10.1039/c5ta01667c

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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Journal of Materials Chemistry A (292)

Abstract

Highly dense Cu2−xS bulks, fabricated by a melt-solidification technique, show high thermoelectric performance withzTof ∼1.9 at 970 K.

Bibliography

Zhao, L., Wang, X., Fei, F. Y., Wang, J., Cheng, Z., Dou, S., Wang, J., & Snyder, G. J. (2015). High thermoelectric and mechanical performance in highly dense Cu2âxS bulks prepared by a melt-solidification technique. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(18), 9432â9437.

Authors 8

Lanling Zhao (first)
Xiaolin Wang (additional)
Frank Yun Fei (additional)
Jiyang Wang (additional)
Zhenxiang Cheng (additional)
Shixue Dou (additional)
Jun Wang (additional)
G. Jeffrey Snyder (additional)

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Dates

Type	When
Created	10 years, 4 months ago (April 9, 2015, 7:01 a.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 4 months ago (April 17, 2024, 1:40 p.m.)
Indexed	1 week ago (Aug. 29, 2025, 5:41 a.m.)
Issued	10 years, 8 months ago (Jan. 1, 2015)
Published	10 years, 8 months ago (Jan. 1, 2015)
Published Online	10 years, 8 months ago (Jan. 1, 2015)

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BibTeX

@article{Zhao_2015, title={High thermoelectric and mechanical performance in highly dense Cu2−xS bulks prepared by a melt-solidification technique}, volume={3}, ISSN={2050-7496}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ta01667c}, DOI={10.1039/c5ta01667c}, number={18}, journal={Journal of Materials Chemistry A}, publisher={Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)}, author={Zhao, Lanling and Wang, Xiaolin and Fei, Frank Yun and Wang, Jiyang and Cheng, Zhenxiang and Dou, Shixue and Wang, Jun and Snyder, G. Jeffrey}, year={2015}, pages={9432–9437} }

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