Research Progress on the Mg2(Si,Sn) Based Thermoelectric Materials
LI Xin1, XIE Hui1, YANG Bin2, LI Shuangming2
1 School of Materials Engineering, Xi'an Aeronautical University, Xi'an 710077, China; 2 State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
Abstract: Thermoelectric functional material can realize the conversion between thermal and electric energy by the carrier and phonon transport and interaction. Solar radiation, industrial and automobile waste heat can be converted to electric energy by thermoelectric materials. It has great significance to alleviate the pressure of environmental pollution and energy. In addition, because of the advantages of low noise, non-pollution, small size and sensitive response, thermoelectric device has received extensive attention from researchers in recent years. The performance of thermoelectric material is characterized by the figure of merit ZT. How to improve the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials, i.e. improve the ZT value, becomes the research hotspot. As one of the most potential medium temperature thermoelectric materials, Mg2(Si,Sn) alloy has been widely researched due to the advantage of low cost and non-toxic. Researchers have tried some synthetic methods to obtain high quality Mg2(Si,Sn) bulk, such as high frequency induction melting, solid reaction and hot press sintering, two step solid reaction and spark plasma sintering, rapid solidification and plasma activated sintering. In addition, band engineering, single and double elements doping are also used to further optimize the performance, and the ZT values are improved from 0.5 to 1.55. However, this kind of bulk materials with nano-sized grains exists the problem of incomplete reaction and grain growth during service. Furthermore, the chemical activity and volatility of Mg and large melting point difference between elements bring great difficulties to the synthesis of Mg2(Si,Sn) by melting methods, and extremely limited the optimization of thermoelectric performance. Therefore, preparation of high quality Mg2(Si,Sn) bulk remains an urgent issue. In this paper, the latest research progress of preparation processes, band engineering application, and the choice of doping elements for Mg2(Si,Sn) based thermoelectric materials are summarized. The existing problems and development direction in the future are presented. We also put forward the method of Mg2(Si,Sn) single crystal growth by directional solidification. And the thermoelectric performance can be optimized by the anisotropy of single crystal. This method is expected to solve the problem of performance deterioration caused by nano-sized grain growth during service. At the same time, a different path of thermoelectric performance optimization is put forward for this kind of alloys.
李鑫, 谢辉, 杨宾, 李双明. Mg2(Si,Sn)基热电材料研究进展[J]. 材料导报, 2020, 34(Z1): 43-47.
LI Xin, XIE Hui, YANG Bin, LI Shuangming. Research Progress on the Mg2(Si,Sn) Based Thermoelectric Materials. Materials Reports, 2020, 34(Z1): 43-47.
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