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Breaking thermoelectric performance limits

Nature Materials volume 20, pages 1309–1310 (2021)Cite this article

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Through meticulous care for detail, researchers have now shattered the ceiling on thermoelectric performance, achieving a figure of merit above 3 for bulk SnSe polycrystalline powder.

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Fig. 1: Schematic illustration of the process to first purify the starting reagents and then remove surface tin oxides (SnOx) before obtaining ultrapure polycrystalline SnSe with remarkably improved properties.

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Iversen, B.B. Breaking thermoelectric performance limits. Nat. Mater. 20, 1309–1310 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01065-5

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