A facile synthetic approach for copper iron sulfide nanocrystals with enhanced thermoelectric performance
Daxin Liang1, Ruoshui Ma, Shihui Jiao
1State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China.
Nanoscale
|September 12, 2012
Abstract:
Chalcopyrite CuFeS(2) nanocrystals with a diameter of 6.4 nm were synthesized using a facile solution-phase method. Due to quantum confinement, the CuFeS(2) nanocrystals exhibit a maximum ZT value of 0.264 at 500 K, which is 77 times the value of bulk chalcopyrite.
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