{"month":"01","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","issue":"1","title":"Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance","external_id":{"pmid":["34549956"],"isi":["000767223400008"]},"publication":"ACS Nano","pmid":1,"oa_version":"Published Version","date_created":"2021-09-24T07:55:12Z","related_material":{"record":[{"id":"12885","status":"public","relation":"dissertation_contains"}]},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"page":"78-88","publication_status":"published","type":"journal_article","date_published":"2022-01-25T00:00:00Z","publisher":"American Chemical Society ","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","abstract":[{"text":"SnSe has emerged as one of the most promising materials for thermoelectric energy conversion due to its extraordinary performance in its single-crystal form and its low-cost constituent elements. However, to achieve an economic impact, the polycrystalline counterpart needs to replicate the performance of the single crystal. Herein, we optimize the thermoelectric performance of polycrystalline SnSe produced by consolidating solution-processed and surface-engineered SnSe particles. In particular, the SnSe particles are coated with CdSe molecular complexes that crystallize during the sintering process, forming CdSe nanoparticles. The presence of CdSe nanoparticles inhibits SnSe grain growth during the consolidation step due to Zener pinning, yielding a material with a high density of grain boundaries. Moreover, the resulting SnSe–CdSe nanocomposites present a large number of defects at different length scales, which significantly reduce the thermal conductivity. The produced SnSe–CdSe nanocomposites exhibit thermoelectric figures of merit up to 2.2 at 786 K, which is among the highest reported for solution-processed SnSe.","lang":"eng"}],"intvolume":"        16","status":"public","file_date_updated":"2022-03-02T16:17:29Z","doi":"10.1021/acsnano.1c06720","date_updated":"2023-08-02T14:41:05Z","keyword":["tin selenide","nanocomposite","grain growth","Zener pinning","thermoelectricity","annealing","solution processing"],"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"citation":{"short":"Y. Liu, M. Calcabrini, Y. Yu, S. Lee, C. Chang, J. David, T. Ghosh, M.C. Spadaro, C. Xie, O. Cojocaru-Mirédin, J. Arbiol, M. Ibáñez, ACS Nano 16 (2022) 78–88.","ama":"Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, et al. Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. <i>ACS Nano</i>. 2022;16(1):78-88. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>","ieee":"Y. Liu <i>et al.</i>, “Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance,” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 16, no. 1. American Chemical Society , pp. 78–88, 2022.","apa":"Liu, Y., Calcabrini, M., Yu, Y., Lee, S., Chang, C., David, J., … Ibáñez, M. (2022). Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society . <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>","chicago":"Liu, Yu, Mariano Calcabrini, Yuan Yu, Seungho Lee, Cheng Chang, Jérémy David, Tanmoy Ghosh, et al. “Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline SnSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>ACS Nano</i>. American Chemical Society , 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>.","mla":"Liu, Yu, et al. “Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline SnSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>ACS Nano</i>, vol. 16, no. 1, American Chemical Society , 2022, pp. 78–88, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c06720\">10.1021/acsnano.1c06720</a>.","ista":"Liu Y, Calcabrini M, Yu Y, Lee S, Chang C, David J, Ghosh T, Spadaro MC, Xie C, Cojocaru-Mirédin O, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M. 2022. Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. ACS Nano. 16(1), 78–88."},"acknowledgement":"This work was financially supported by IST Austria and the Werner Siemens Foundation. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754411. S.L. and M.C. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. J.D. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 665919 (P-SPHERE) cofunded by Severo Ochoa Programme. C.C. acknowledges funding from the FWF “Lise Meitner Fellowship” grant agreement M 2889-N. Y.Y. and O.C.-M. acknowledge the financial support from DFG within the project SFB 917: Nanoswitches. M.C.S. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754510 (PROBIST) and the Severo Ochoa programme. J.D. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665919 (P-SPHERE) cofunded by Severo Ochoa Programme. The ICN2 is funded by the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya and by the Severo Ochoa program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (MINECO, grant no. SEV-2017-0706). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2017 SGR 327 and the Spanish MINECO project NANOGEN (PID2020-116093RB-C43). This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 823717-ESTEEM3. The FIB sample preparation was conducted in the LMA-INA-Universidad de Zaragoza.","day":"25","quality_controlled":"1","ddc":["540"],"ec_funded":1,"oa":1,"volume":16,"_id":"10042","year":"2022","scopus_import":"1","project":[{"_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"754411","name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships"},{"_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"665385","name":"International IST Doctoral Program"},{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"},{"_id":"9B8804FC-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","grant_number":"M02889","name":"Bottom-up Engineering for Thermoelectric Applications"}],"article_type":"original","isi":1,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1936-086X"],"issn":["1936-0851"]},"file":[{"file_size":9050764,"access_level":"open_access","creator":"cchlebak","date_updated":"2022-03-02T16:17:29Z","success":1,"checksum":"74f9c1aa5f95c0b992a4328e8e0247b4","relation":"main_file","date_created":"2022-03-02T16:17:29Z","file_id":"10808","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"2022_ACSNano_Liu.pdf"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","author":[{"full_name":"Liu, Yu","last_name":"Liu","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740","first_name":"Yu","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"id":"45D7531A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Calcabrini","full_name":"Calcabrini, Mariano","first_name":"Mariano"},{"first_name":"Yuan","full_name":"Yu, Yuan","last_name":"Yu"},{"id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","full_name":"Lee, Seungho","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598","last_name":"Lee","first_name":"Seungho"},{"first_name":"Cheng","full_name":"Chang, Cheng","orcid":"0000-0002-9515-4277","last_name":"Chang","id":"9E331C2E-9F27-11E9-AE48-5033E6697425"},{"last_name":"David","full_name":"David, Jérémy","first_name":"Jérémy"},{"full_name":"Ghosh, Tanmoy","last_name":"Ghosh","first_name":"Tanmoy","id":"a5fc9bc3-feff-11ea-93fe-e8015a3c7e9d"},{"last_name":"Spadaro","full_name":"Spadaro, Maria Chiara","first_name":"Maria Chiara"},{"last_name":"Xie","full_name":"Xie, Chenyang","first_name":"Chenyang"},{"first_name":"Oana","last_name":"Cojocaru-Mirédin","full_name":"Cojocaru-Mirédin, Oana"},{"last_name":"Arbiol","full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi"},{"id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"}]}