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Nanostructuring and nanocompositing will be explored as a route to enhance the thermoelectric performance of materials. The project will involve synthesis of new chalcogenides and oxychalcogenides and structural and physical property characterisation (e.g. powder X-ray diffraction, electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity measurements). The group is a major user of central facilities (ISIS, Diamond) at the nearby Harwell campus, and there will be opportunities to characterise these materials by neutron diffraction or inelastic neutron scattering.
Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Paz Vaqueiro (p.vaqueiro@reading.ac.uk).
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References
J. Prado-Gonjal, M. Phillips, P. Vaqueiro, G. Min and A. V. Powell, “Skutterudite thermoelectric modules with high volume-power-density: scalability and reproducibility”, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 1, 6609–6618 (2018).
P. Vaqueiro, G. Guélou, A. Kaltzoglou, R. I. Smith, T. Barbier, E. Guilmeau and A. V. Powell, “The influence of mobile copper ions on the glass-like thermal conductivity of copper-rich tetrahedrites”, Chem. Mater., 29, 4080–4090 (2017).
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