Nilges, Tom and Osters, Oliver and Bawohl, Melanie and Bobet, Jean-Louis and Chevalier, Bernard and Decourt, Rodolphe and Weihrich, Richard (2010) Reversible Property Switching, Thermoelectric Performance, and d(10)-d(10) Interactions in Ag5Te2Cl. CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 22 (9). pp. 2946-2954. ISSN 0897-4756,
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Thermoelectric and phase analytical measurements were performed to investigate the physical properties of trimorphic Ag5Te2Cl. The material is a mixed electron/silver ion conductor featuring drastic property changes during a silver order/disorder phase transition at 334 K. The transition is characterized by a jump in the total electric conductivity by 2 orders of magnitude directly affecting the electric and thermoelectric properties. Silver ions are arranged in well-defined strands along the crystallographic c-axis characterized by a set of not fully occupied sites. Heat capacity measurements show a large effect, whereas the thermopower and thermal diffusivity drop significantly at the temperature of transition. Right after the transition, an attractive d(10)-d(10) interaction within the disordered silver substructure occurs affecting the c-lattice parameter upon heating. Due to this interaction a modulation of the electronic structure and the thermoelectric properties can be observed which have been investigated in detail. While the thermopower stays low with increasing temperature the thermal diffusivity relaxes fast to values before the transition. At 355 K, the thermopower starts rising again, which is consistent with a small effect in the heat capacity and a reduction of the c-lattice parameter upon heating. Further heating leads to a reduction of the d(10)-d(10) interactions and a drastic increase in the thermopower. The observed phenomenon must be regarded as a new example of a compound following the recently discovered concept of low-dimensional partially covalent-bonded structure units that can positively influence thermoelectric properties in bulk materials. Ag5Te2Cl is the first example where mobile d(10) ions interact to create low-dimensional partially covalent-bonded subunits in a solid, which then leads to a switching of thermoelectric and electronic Properties. The system shows very low thermal conductivities between 0.19W m(-1) K-1 and 0.60 W m(-1) K-1 in the temperature range 298 to 500 K, reaching a maximal ZT value of 0.033 at high temperatures.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SILVER(I) CHALCOGENIDE HALIDES; LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE; ELECTRICAL-PROPERTIES; THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY; PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES; MIXED CONDUCTOR; DIFFUSIVITY; AG10TE4BR3; SE; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences |
| Divisions: | Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Anorganische Chemie > Arbeitskreis Dr. Richard Weihrich |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2020 11:16 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2020 11:16 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/24737 |
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