A kind of method that improves bismuth sulfide polycrystalline thermoelectricity capability
Technical field
The invention belongs to the energy and material technical field, particularly a kind of method that improves bismuth sulfide polycrystalline thermoelectricity capability relates to mechanical alloying, the synthetic and discharge plasma sintering technique of hydro-thermal.
Background technology
Along with socioeconomic continuous development, environment and energy problem are more and more paid attention to by the mankind.Thermoelectric material can directly be realized the mutual conversion of heat energy and electric energy, and thermo-electric device is pollution-free, zero release and structure is light, volume is little, the life-span is long, receives people's attention day by day.The electrothermal module that with the thermo-electric device is core parts has a wide range of applications at aspects such as semiconductor refrigerating, thermoelectric cells.With the competition of the refrigeration modes of routine and conventional power source in, thermo-electric device realizes that the key of widespread use is the raising of thermoelectric refrigeration and thermopower generation efficiency.Thermoelectricity capability characterizes with non-dimensional thermoelectric figure of merit ZT,
ZT=TS 2 σ/κ, S is a Seebeck coefficient, and σ is a specific conductivity, and κ is a thermal conductivity, and T is a T; S
2σ is called power factor, is used for characterizing the electrical transmission performance of thermoelectric material.
As everyone knows, single crystal is compared with polycrystal, high, the bad mechanical property of thermal conductance when specific conductivity is high.As far as polycrystal, grain-size is big more, and specific conductivity and thermal conductivity are just big more, and grain-size is more little, and specific conductivity and thermal conductivity are also more little.Therefore for good polycrystalline thermoelectric material, there are contradiction in demanding specific conductivity and low thermal conductivity in the optimization of grain-size, can't solve the contradiction that not only seeks out high conductivity but also want to obtain lower thermal conductivity through the adjustment grain-size.
Bismuth sulfide is a kind of important semiconductor material, energy gap 1.4 eV, it is at a, combine with weak Van der Waals force on the b direction of principal axis, on the c direction of principal axis with strong ionic linkage or covalent bonds.This structural strong anisotropy makes the virtual mass of current carrier also have tangible anisotropy, and the current carrier virtual mass of a direction is 3.0 ± 0.5 (Cantarero, A. with the ratio of the current carrier virtual mass of c direction; Martinez-Pastor, J.; Segura, A. Transport Properties of Bismuth Sulfide Single Crystals,
Phys. Rev. B,
1987, 35,9586.).Therefore, during with the synthetic bismuth sulfide of solution method, obtain along the single crystal of c axle orientation easily, and will be far above along a along c direction of principal axis mobility of charge carrier rate, the mobility of b axle (Shaban, H.T.; Nassary, M.M.; El-Sadek, M.S. Transport Properties of Bi
2S
3Single Crystals,
Physica B 2008, 403,1655-1659.).
Discharge plasma sintering technique is that a kind of powder low temperature Fast Sintering that can realize prepares the new technology of block materials, can suppress crystal grain and in sintering process, grow up and be out of shape.
Summary of the invention
A kind of method that improves the bismuth sulfide thermoelectricity capability provided by the invention; Based on the electronic selection transmission route; Phonon is not selected the ultimate principle of transmission route, adopts the discharge plasma sintering method, and the monocrystalline bismuth sulfide nano-rod that is orientated is solidificated in the polycrystalline bismuth sulfide block; Form quick carrier mobility passage; The high mobility and the high conductivity that make polycrystalline bulk have to compare mutually with single crystal have lower thermal conductivity again simultaneously, have solved the difficult problem that single crystal and polycrystal electrical property and thermal property are difficult to optimize simultaneously highlightedly.
A kind of method that improves bismuth sulfide polycrystalline thermoelectricity capability is characterized in that:
1, the bismuth sulfide nano powder with the mechanical alloying method preparation mixes with mass ratio (1:0.01 ~ 1) with the monocrystalline bismuth sulfide nano-rod of hydrothermal method synthetic (001) orientation; Ultra-sonic dispersion is 10 ~ 200 minutes in absolute ethyl alcohol, the hand lapping 10 ~ 100 minutes in agate mortar of oven dry back.Ground powder is placed graphite jig, adopt discharge plasma sintering technique, be incubated 0 ~ 30 minute and prepare the bismuth sulfide polycrystalline bulk at 300 ~ 500 ℃ of sintering.
2, the bismuth sulfide nano powder of above-mentioned mechanical alloying method preparation is characterized in that: particle size is at the random pattern nano-powder of 5 ~ 500 nm.
3, the characteristic of above-mentioned hydrothermal method synthetic monocrystalline bismuth sulfide nano-rod is: have (001) orientation, nanometer rod is of a size of diameter 50 ~ 200 nm, length 0.2 ~ 5 μ m.
The present invention utilizes discharge plasma sintering technique, and the monocrystalline bismuth sulfide nano-rod that will have good conductive channel is incorporated in the polycrystalline bismuth sulfide block, in the pattern and conductive characteristic that keep monocrystalline, significantly improves the electrical transmission performance of polycrystalline bismuth sulfide.
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Fig. 1 doesA kind of principle schematic that improves bismuth sulfide polycrystalline thermoelectricity capability.
Fig. 2 doesBismuth sulfide nano-rod is cured in the sem photograph in kind in the polycrystalline.
Embodiment
Bismuth sulfide nano powder (MA powder) with the mechanical alloying method preparation mixes with mass ratio with the monocrystalline bismuth sulfide nano-rod (NR powder) of hydrothermal method synthetic (001) orientation; Ultra-sonic dispersion minute in absolute ethyl alcohol is 30 ~ 150 ℃ of oven dry hand lappings in agate mortar after 30 ~ 300 minutes.Ground powder is placed graphite jig, adopt discharge plasma sintering process to prepare the bismuth sulfide polycrystalline bulk.
Test conditions is following: the nano powder of mechanical alloying method preparation and the mass ratio of hydro-thermal synthetic nanometer rod powder are: 1:0.01 ~ 1.The time of ultra-sonic dispersion is: 10 ~ 200 minutes, the hand lapping time was: 10 ~ 100 minutes.Discharge plasma sintering process is 300 ~ 500 ℃ of sintering, is incubated 0 ~ 30 minute, and pressure is 20-60 MPa.
Specific embodiment is seen table 1.
Table 1 several preferred embodiments of the present invention:
Advantages such as in sum, through the introducing of nanometer rod, significantly improved the carrier mobility of bismuth sulfide polycrystalline material, improved thermoelectricity capability, present method has, and is convenient, simple, easy to operate.