A facile energy-saving route is developed for fabricating Sb2Te3Te nanocomposites and nanosized Te powders. The fabrication route not only avoids using organic chemicals, but also keeps the energy consumption to a minimum. The fabrication procedure involves two steps. Energetic precursors of nanosized powders of Sb and Te are produced at room temperature followed by hot pressing at 4008C under 70 MPa for 1 h. The resulting Sb2Te3-Te nanocomposite exhibits enhanced power factor. The dimensionless figure of merit zT value of the Sb2Te3-Te nanocomposite is 0.29 at 475 K.
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Liu, E. Y., Lin, F. H., Yang, Z. R., & Liu, C. J. (2018). A facile energy-saving route of fabricating thermoelectric Sb2Te3-Te nanocomposites and nanosized Te. Royal Society Open Science, 5(10). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180698
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