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Research team develops new strategy for designing thermoelectric materials


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(Left) Schematic diagram explaining two electronic structure parameters: charge transfer energy (Δ) and onsite Coulomb repulsion energy (U). (Right) Plot of Δ and U values indicating areas in which materials with desirable thermoelectric conversion properties can be found. Credit: Isao Ohkubo / National Institute for Materials Science

The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has succeeded in developing a new approach to the design of thermoelectric materials by constructing a database of electronic structure parameters correlated with materials’ thermoelectric conversion properties and by a comprehensive analysis of the database. This approach can be used to develop higher performance thermoelectric materials.

Thermoelectric conversion is a viable means of harvesting energy to help achieve a low carbon economy and supply electricity to IoT devices—a key digital transformation technology. For these purposes, more efficient thermoelectric materials must be developed. Thermoelectric conversion is a long-known physical phenomenon: Electricity is generated in a solid material with a temperature gradient across it.

Extensive efforts have been made to discover highly efficient thermoelectric materials. The conventional approach to developing high-performance thermoelectric materials has been to analyze the electronic structures of materials that exhibit highly efficient thermoelectric conversion and investigate the mechanisms responsible. These studies have so far focused on the mechanisms of individual materials rather than trying to find commonalities among them. This research group discovered electronic structure properties common to high-performance thermoelectric materials and succeeded in developing a versatile materials design approach.

The research group first constructed a database of two electronic structure parameters known to be correlated with materials’ thermoelectric conversion properties: charge transfer energy (Δ) and onsite Coulomb repulsion energy (U). Data was collected from various materials containing transition metal ions—a material group in which promising thermoelectric materials have been found in the past. Multiple materials were then simultaneously analyzed using this database, revealing the relationship between various chemical elements and the parameters. Finally, the group applied these relationships to thermoelectric materials and discovered that materials with desirable thermoelectric conversion properties occur in particular areas along the plotted Δ and U values.

These results represent a new approach to designing high-performance thermoelectric materials. In addition, the database developed in this project is expected to be useful in research on a wide range of materials (e.g., lithium-ion batteries, catalysts, superconductors and magnetic and ion conducting materials) in addition to thermoelectric materials.

Researchers enhance thermoelectric performance of SnTe More information: Isao Ohkubo et al, Rational Design of 3d Transition-Metal Compounds for Thermoelectric Properties by Using Periodic Trends in Electron-Correlation Modulation, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12520 Provided by National Institute for Materials Science

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