The formation of volatile radioactive species is a major concern in severe nuclear reactor accident scenarios. Release material to the environment highly governed by volatility and therefore it its crucial understand behavior any such during days weeks following. One volatile, yet understudied fission products tellurium. Although tellurium has been released significant amounts accidents that ha...

Nanowires of bismuth antimony telluride and bismuth telluride selenide (Bi15Sb29Te56 and Bi38Te55Se7) were grown by template-based pulsed electrodeposition. The composition and the crystallinity of the nanowires were determined by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The thermoelectric properties (Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity) of single p- and n-type nanowires, w...

Thermoelectric structural materials are potentially attractive for large-scale energy harvesting. Through filler incorporation and unprecedented decoupling of the bulk (laminae) and interfacial (interlaminar interfaces) contributions to the Seebeck voltage (through-thickness Seebeck voltage of a crossply continuous carbon fiber/epoxy composite laminate), this work provides thermoelectric power ...

To design superior thermoelectric materials the minority carrier blocking effect in which the unwanted bipolar transport is prevented by the interfacial energy barriers in the heterogeneous nanostructures has been theoretically proposed recently. The theory predicts an enhanced power factor and a reduced bipolar thermal conductivity for materials with a relatively low doping level, which could ...

The charge collection properties in different particle sensor materials with respect to the shape of the generated signals, the electric field within the detector, the charge carrier mobility and the carrier lifetime are studied with the transient current technique (TCT). Using the well-known properties of Si as a reference, the focus is laid on Cadmium-Telluride (CdTe) and Cadmium-Zinc-Telluri...

Heterostructures of germanium antimony tellurides with skutterudite-type precipitates are promising thermoelectric materials due to low thermal conductivity and multiple ways of tuning their electronic transport properties. Materials with the nominal composition [CoSb2(GeTe)0.5]x(GeTe)10.5Sb2Te3 (x = 0–2) contain nanoto microscale precipitates of skutterudite-type phases which are homogeneously...

We theoretically studied how the electric field effect can modify thermoelectric properties of intrinsic, n-type and p-type bismuth telluride nanowires with the growth direction 110 . The electronic structure and the wave functions were calculated by solving self-consistently the system of the Schrödinger and Poisson equations using the spectral method. The Poisson equation was solved in terms ...

Despite the scarcity of research on phosphane tellurides, our study unveils five novel silver complexes containing TeP( i Pr) 3 ligands. Silver telluride display unique species with distinctive Ag 2 Te cores and a combination bridging terminal

The crystal and molecular structure of di-2-thienyl telluride was determined by X-ray analysis. Crystal (monoclinic) data were: a = 9.526(4), b = 6.252(4), c — 16.302(5) Ä; ß = 97.29(3)°, Z = 4, space group P 2 x/c. Hydrogen bonds are absent and only van der Waals forces are deter­ mining crystal packing. The Crlng—Te bond distances suggest little conjugation of Te atom with the rings. Comparis...