Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert thermal energy to electrical energy. Chen and coworkers have discovered that doping the well known thermoelectric material Mo3Sb7 with tellurium produces an inexpensive material with properties comparable to the state-of-the-art in this field.
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Optimized thermoelectric properties of Mo3Sb7−xTex with significant phonon scattering by electrons
Xiaoya Shi, Yanzhong Pei, G. Jeffrey Snyder and Lidong Chen
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/C1EE01406D
