Abstract
dc:description.abstractThermoelectric heat engines are currently used in several niche applications for electricity generation and cooling. Many additional applications would be practical if thermoelectric materials with improved figures of merit could be made. Over the past twenty years, many nanostructured materials have been shown to possess improved figures of merit compared to their bulk counterparts mostly due to the reduction in thermal conductivity associated with nanostructured materials. Several classes of solution synthesized nanostructured materials have achieved high figures of merit, yet significant room for improvement exists for solution synthesized nanostructured PbTe.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Chemical Engineering
- Year
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Finefrock, Scott William
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Yue Wu
- R B Pipes
- James Caruthers
- Timothy S Fisher
- John Morgan
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1074
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2290