Bridging silicon nanoparticles and thermoelectrics: phenylacetylene functionalization
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Bridging silicon nanoparticles and thermoelectrics: phenylacetylene functionalization.
Silicon is a promising alternative to current thermoelectric materials (Bi(2)Te(3)). Silicon nanoparticle based materials show especially low thermal conductivities due to their high number of interfaces, which increases the observed phonon scattering. The major obstacle with these materials is maintaining high electrical conductivity. Surface functionalization with phenylacetylene shows an ele...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Faraday Discuss.
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1359-6640,1364-5498
DOI: 10.1039/c4fd00109e