X-ray diffraction techniques for mineral characterization: A review for engineers of the fundamentals, applications, and research directions

A Ali, YW Chiang, RM Santos - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
X-ray diffraction (XRD) is an important and widely used material characterization technique.
With the recent development in material science technology and understanding, various …

Review of thermal conductivity in composites: Mechanisms, parameters and theory

N Burger, A Laachachi, M Ferriol, M Lutz… - Progress in Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermal conductivity has become an important parameter for new technologies, especially
in aerospace and aeronautics. The advanced materials used in some electronic applications …

Tetrahedrites as thermoelectric materials: an overview

R Chetty, A Bali, RC Mallik - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Tetrahedrites are natural earth-abundant minerals consisting of environmentally-friendly
elements of copper and sulphur. Recently, research has been focused on the natural and …

Microscopic Mechanisms of Glasslike Lattice Thermal Transport in Cubic Tetrahedrites

Y Xia, V Ozoliņš, C Wolverton - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Materials based on cubic tetrahedrites (Cu 12 Sb 4 S 13) are useful thermoelectrics with
unusual thermal and electrical transport properties, such as very low and nearly temperature …

Direct measurement of individual phonon lifetimes in the clathrate compound Ba7.81Ge40.67Au5.33

PF Lory, S Pailhès, VM Giordano, H Euchner… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Engineering lattice thermal conductivity requires to control the heat carried by atomic
vibration waves, the phonons. The key parameter for quantifying it is the phonon lifetime …

Some thermoelectric phenomena in copper chalcogenides replaced by lithium and sodium alkaline metals

MM Kubenova, KA Kuterbekov, MK Balapanov… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review presents thermoelectric phenomena in copper chalcogenides substituted with
sodium and lithium alkali metals. The results for other modern thermoelectric materials are …

Research Update: Cu–S based synthetic minerals as efficient thermoelectric materials at medium temperatures

K Suekuni, T Takabatake - Apl Materials, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Synthetic minerals and related systems based on Cu–S are attractive thermoelectric (TE)
materials because of their environmentally benign characters and high figures of merit at …

Thermoelectric properties of Co substituted synthetic tetrahedrite

R Chetty, A Bali, MH Naik, G Rogl, P Rogl, M Jain… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Transition metal atom (Co) substituted synthetic tetrahedrite compounds Cu 12− x Co x Sb 4
S 13 (x= 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0) were prepared by solid state synthesis. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) …

Phase Stability, Crystal Structure, and Thermoelectric Properties of Cu12Sb4S13–xSex Solid Solutions

X Lu, DT Morelli, Y Wang, W Lai, Y Xia… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The solubility of selenium on the sulfur site in tetrahedrite Cu12Sb4S13 has been
investigated by theoretical calculations, and the results have been verified by X-ray …

Crystal structure, electronic band structure and high-temperature thermoelectric properties of Te-substituted tetrahedrites Cu 12 Sb 4− x Te x S 13 (0.5≤ x≤ 2.0)

Y Bouyrie, C Candolfi, V Ohorodniichuk… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Polycrystalline samples of the tetrahedrite phase Cu12Sb4− xTexS13 with nominal
compositions 0.5≤ x≤ 2.0 were synthesized by two different synthesis routes: from …