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Raising the thermoelectric performance of PbS with low-content polyparaphenylene

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Lead sulfide (PbS), a promising medium-temperature thermoelectric material, is a cheap and excellent substitute for lead pyride. However, its high thermal conductivity limits its thermoelectric properties strongly. In this paper, the nanocomposites with PbS matrix and organic conducting polymer polyparaphenylene (PPP) supplement are introduced to decrease the thermal conductivity by mechanical mixing method. The experimental results show that the thermal conductivity of PbS–PPP nanocomposites significantly decreases and the minimum thermal conductivity is 0.43 W m−1 K−1, which can be obtained when the mass ratio of the PPP is 3% at 773 K. Consequently, the figure of merit (ZT) of PbS–PPP nanocomposites reaches as large as 0.5, which is 52.40% of magnitude higher than that of pure PbS. Therefore, it is an effective way to improve the thermoelectric properties of PbS by introducing the organic conducting polymer PPP. This work may shed light on developing high-performance thermoelectric materials via organic–inorganic nanocomposites at the intermediate temperature range.

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This work was supported by the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51590902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51676117), the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Young Eastern Scholar, No. QD2015052) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, the Key Subject of Shanghai Polytechnic University (Material Science and Engineering, No. XXKZD1601) and Gaoyuan Discipline of Shanghai: Environmental Science and Engineering (Resource Recycling Science and Engineering).

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    Yihuai Li, Jinhao Lin, Huaqing Xie & Yuanyuan Wang

  3. Research Center of Resource Recycling Science and Engineering, Shanghai Polytechnic University, Shanghai, 201209, China

    Yihuai Li, Huaqing Xie & Yuanyuan Wang

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Li, Y., Lin, J., Xie, H. et al. Raising the thermoelectric performance of PbS with low-content polyparaphenylene. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 6586–6592 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03214-z

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