Ba-filled Ni-Sb-Sn based skutterudites with anomalously high lattice thermal conductivity

• Authors: PASCHINGER Werner; ROGL Gerda; GRYTSIV Andryi; MICHOR Herwig; HEINRICH Patrick-Rene; MÜLLER Herbert; PUCHEGGER Stephan; KLOBES Benedikt; HERMANN Raphael; REINECKER Marius; EISENMENGER-SITTNER Christoph; BROŽ Pavel; BAUER Ernst; GIESTER Gerald; ZEHETBAUER Michael; ROGL Peter Franz
• Year of publication: 2016
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Dalton Transactions
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: Full Text
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6dt01298a
• Field: Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry
• Keywords: skutterudites; Ba-Ni-Sb-Sn system; nanostructures; phase equilibria; physical properties
• Description: Novel filled skutterudites BayNi4Sb12-xSnx (ymax = 0.93) have been prepared by arc melting followed by annealing at 250, 350 and 450 °C up to 30 days in vacuum-sealed quartz vials and their physical and thermoelectric properties studied. Besides, phase equilibria in the Ni-Sb-Sn system have been studied as well to understand the behaviour of filler atoms like Ba. Besides bulk materials, nanostructured homologues have been studied as well.