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Low Thermal Conductivity in Heteroanionic Materials with Layers of Homoleptic Polyhedra.

Chi ZhangJiangang HeRebecca McClainHongyao XieSongting CaiLauren N WaltersJiahong ShenFenghua DingXiuquan ZhouChristos D MalliakasJames M RondinelliMercouri G KanatzidisChristopher M WolvertonVinayak P DravidKenneth R Poeppelmeier
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022)
Although BiAgOSe, an analogue of a well-studied thermoelectric material BiCuOSe, is thermodynamically stable, its synthesis is complicated by the low driving force of formation from the stable binary and ternary intermediates. Here we have developed a "subtraction strategy" to suppress byproducts and produce pure phase BiAgOSe using hydrothermal methods. Electronic structure calculations and optical characterization show that BiAgOSe is an indirect bandgap semiconductor with a bandgap of 0.95 eV. The prepared sample exhibits lower lattice thermal conductivities (0.61 W·m -1 ·K -1 at room temperature and 0.35 W·m -1 ·K -1 at 650 K) than BiCuOSe. Lattice dynamical simulations and variable temperature diffraction measurements demonstrate that the low lattice thermal conductivity arises from both the low sound velocity and high phonon-phonon scattering rates in BiAgOSe. These in turn result primarily from the soft Ag-Se bonds in the edge-sharing AgSe 4 tetrahedra and large sublattice mismatch between the quasi-two-dimensional [Bi 2 O 2 ] 2+ and [Ag 2 Se 2 ] 2- layers. These results highlight the advantages of manipulating the chemistry of homoleptic polyhedra in heteroanionic compounds for electronic structure and phonon transport control.
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