Year 2018

• Structure and thermoelectric properties of bismuth telluride—Carbon composites

  Publication

  • B. J. Trawiński
  • B. Bochentyn
  • N. Gostkowska
  • M. S. Łapiński
  • T. Miruszewski
  • B. Kusz

  - MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN - Year 2018

  Carbon nanotubes and amorphous carbon have been introduced into a bismuth telluride matrix (0.15 and 0.30 wt.% ratio) to investigate the influence of the carbon on the composite’s thermoelectric properties. Composites with well-dispersed additives have been obtained by sonication and ball-milling methodology. Carbon nanotubes and an amorphous carbon addition led to a decrease in electric conductivity from 1120 S/cm to 77 S/cm....

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Year 2017

• Structure and thermoelectric properties of Cs-Bi-Te alloys fabricated by different routes of reduction of oxide reagents

  Publication

  • N. Gostkowska
  • T. Miruszewski
  • B. J. Trawiński
  • B. Bochentyn
  • B. Kusz

  - SOLID STATE SCIENCES - Year 2017

  Cesium-bismuth-telluride polycrystalline materials were fabricated using a cost-effective method based on a reduction of oxide reagents, leading to a production of a material with good thermoelectric properties. Several samples with various initial stoichiometry were prepared by melting of oxide powders at 1050 °C, quenching, milling to powders and then reducing in pure hydrogen at 400 °C. Another concept was to obtain the CsBi4Te6...

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