TY - JOUR
T1 - Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Thermoelectric Properties of Na2+xAl2+xSn4-x (x = -0.38, -0.24)
AU - Kanno, Masahiro
AU - Yamada, Takahiro
AU - Yamane, Hisanori
AU - Nagai, Hideaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)) under Grant No. 26288105 and was performed under the Cooperative Research Program of “Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices.”
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2016/1/26
Y1 - 2016/1/26
N2 - Single crystals of novel compounds, Na2+xAl2+xSn4-x with x = -0.38 and -0.24, were prepared by slow cooling from the melts of the constituent element metals from 1023 and 1123 K, respectively. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that the compounds crystallize in hexagonal cells (space group P6122) (x = -0.38, a = 6.4050(6) and c = 6.1427(6) Å x = -0.24, a = 6.3984(3) and c = 6.1529(3) Å). In the crystal structures, four-bonded Al and Sn atoms form frameworks in which helical tunnels are contained. Na atoms are statistically arranged at positions of a 6b site in the tunnels with occupancies of approximately 0.3. Polycrystalline bulk samples with a nominal composition X = -0.24 were prepared by heating compacts of a NaSn, Al, and Sn powder mixture at 623 K. The electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient of the polycrystalline samples changed from 3.09 × 103 to 1.03 × 104 S m-1 and from -222 to -185 μV K-1, respectively, with increasing temperature from 295 to 472 K. The thermal conductivity was 0.29-0.36 W m-1 K-1 at 295-371 K. The dimensionless figures of merit ZT were 0.15-0.21 at 295-371 K.
AB - Single crystals of novel compounds, Na2+xAl2+xSn4-x with x = -0.38 and -0.24, were prepared by slow cooling from the melts of the constituent element metals from 1023 and 1123 K, respectively. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that the compounds crystallize in hexagonal cells (space group P6122) (x = -0.38, a = 6.4050(6) and c = 6.1427(6) Å x = -0.24, a = 6.3984(3) and c = 6.1529(3) Å). In the crystal structures, four-bonded Al and Sn atoms form frameworks in which helical tunnels are contained. Na atoms are statistically arranged at positions of a 6b site in the tunnels with occupancies of approximately 0.3. Polycrystalline bulk samples with a nominal composition X = -0.24 were prepared by heating compacts of a NaSn, Al, and Sn powder mixture at 623 K. The electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient of the polycrystalline samples changed from 3.09 × 103 to 1.03 × 104 S m-1 and from -222 to -185 μV K-1, respectively, with increasing temperature from 295 to 472 K. The thermal conductivity was 0.29-0.36 W m-1 K-1 at 295-371 K. The dimensionless figures of merit ZT were 0.15-0.21 at 295-371 K.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04239
DO - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04239
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84955604893
VL - 28
SP - 601
EP - 607
JO - Chemistry of Materials
JF - Chemistry of Materials
SN - 0897-4756
IS - 2
ER -