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Adhimoolam Bakthavachalam Kousaalya1, Xiaoyu Zeng1, Mehmet Karakaya1
1Department of Automotive Engineering, ‡Clemson Composites Center, §Department of Physics & Astronomy, and ⊥Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University , Greenville, South Carolina 29601, United States.
Abstract:
We demonstrate the potential of polymer-derived ceramics (PDC) as next-generation sustainable thermoelectrics. Thermoelectric behavior of polymer-derived silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) ceramics (containing hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) as filler) was studied as a function of measurement temperature. SiOC, sintered at 1300 °C exhibited invariant low thermal conductivity (∼1.5 W/(m·K)) over 30-600 °C, coupled with a small increase in both Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity, with increase in measurement temperature (30-150 °C). SiOC ceramics containing 1 wt % h-BN showed the highest Seebeck coefficient (-33 μV/K) for any PDC thus far.
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