Thermoelectric silicides: A review

A Nozariasbmarz, A Agarwal, ZA Coutant… - Japanese Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Traditional research on thermoelectric materials focused on improving the figure-of-merit zT
to enhance the energy conversion efficiency. With further growth and commercialization of …

Eco‐friendly higher manganese silicide thermoelectric materials: progress and future challenges

WD Liu, ZG Chen, J Zou - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As a promising thermoelectric material, higher manganese silicides are composed of earth‐
abundant and eco‐friendly elements, and have attracted extensive attention for future …

The vacancy defects and oxygen atoms occupation effects on mechanical and electronic properties of Mo5Si3 silicides

J Chen, X Zhang, L Yang, F Wang - … in Theoretical Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Improving brittle behavior and mechanical properties is still a big challenge for high-
temperature structural materials. By means of first-principles calculations, in this paper, we …

Eco-friendly high-performance silicide thermoelectric materials

W Liu, K Yin, Q Zhang, C Uher… - National Science …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Silicide-based thermoelectrics are examples of cost-efficient and environmentally friendly
new energy materials, which can be used for power-generation applications in the range of …

Relevance of solidification kinetics for enhanced thermoelectric performance in Al-doped higher manganese silicides

NS Chauhan, I Ono, K Hayashi… - ACS applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The solidification kinetics of an alloy from its liquid state forms an underlying basis for
microstructural engineering, wherein the state of thermodynamic equilibrium associated with …

Improved thermoelectric properties of re-substituted higher manganese silicides by inducing phonon scattering and an energy-filtering effect at grain boundary …

S Ghodke, A Yamamoto, HC Hu… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this study, the effect of the grain boundary density on the transport properties of the Re-
substituted higher manganese silicide Mn30. 4Re6Si63. 6 has been investigated. The …

Thermoelectric performance of Cr doped and Cr–Fe double-doped higher manganese silicides with adjusted carrier concentration and significant electron–phonon …

Q Guo, W Zhang, Z Liu, X Fu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polycrystalline higher manganese silicides Mn1–x Cr x Si1. 74 (x= 0, 0.10, 0.20) with Cr
single do** and Mn1–2 y Cr y Fe y Si1. 74 (y= 0.10, 0.20) with Cr–Fe double do** have …

Microwave heating and spark plasma sintering as non-conventional synthesis methods to access thermoelectric and magnetic materials

JP Siebert, CM Hamm, CS Birkel - Applied Physics Reviews, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The development of new—cheaper, more efficient, more sustainable, and more reliable—
functional materials with useful properties calls for ever-improving, smart, and innovative …

Significant enhancement of the thermoelectric performance of higher manganese silicide by incorporating MnTe nanophase derived from Te nanowire

Z Li, JF Dong, FH Sun, S Hirono, JF Li - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - ACS Publications
Higher manganese silicide (HMS) is a naturally abundant, eco-friendly, and low-cost p-type
thermoelectric semiconductor with high power factor (PF); however, its figure of merit (ZT) is …

Phonon-charge carrier dynamics via grain-boundary phase in equilibrium reaction of higher manganese silicide/CNF hybrid composites

V Vijay, J Karuna, J Archana… - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Higher manganese (TE) silicide (HMS), an eco-friendly, low-cost, and earth-abundant p-type
thermoelectric material, exposes a Nowotny chimney-ladder crystal structure, obeying the …