A general strategy for making highly efficient thermoelectric films from bismuth chalcogenides has been developed by Chinese scientists. The team from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics created the films by chemical vapor transport on presynthesized Bi films. They say the process is a promising technique for making thermoelectric films.
Read the full article for free until the 15th February: Zhengliang Sun, Shengcong Liufu, Riuheng Liu, Xihong Chen and Lidong Chen, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0JM03561K (Advance Article)
