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Title: Half-heusler alloys with enhanced figure of merit and methods of making

Abstract

Thermoelectric materials and methods of making thermoelectric materials having a nanometer mean grain size less than 1 micron. The method includes combining and arc melting constituent elements of the thermoelectric material to form a liquid alloy of the thermoelectric material and casting the liquid alloy of the thermoelectric material to form a solid casting of the thermoelectric material. The method also includes ball milling the solid casting of the thermoelectric material into nanometer mean size particles and sintering the nanometer size particles to form the thermoelectric material having nanometer scale mean grain size.

Inventors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
GMZ Energy, Inc., Waltham, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1183343
Patent Number(s):
9,048,004
Application Number:
13/719,966
Assignee:
GMZ Energy, Inc. (Waltham, MA)
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-00ER45805
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Dec 19
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Ren, Zhifeng, Yan, Xiao, Joshi, Giri, Chen, Shuo, Chen, Gang, Poudel, Bed, and Caylor, James Christopher. Half-heusler alloys with enhanced figure of merit and methods of making. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Ren, Zhifeng, Yan, Xiao, Joshi, Giri, Chen, Shuo, Chen, Gang, Poudel, Bed, & Caylor, James Christopher. Half-heusler alloys with enhanced figure of merit and methods of making. United States.
Ren, Zhifeng, Yan, Xiao, Joshi, Giri, Chen, Shuo, Chen, Gang, Poudel, Bed, and Caylor, James Christopher. 2015. "Half-heusler alloys with enhanced figure of merit and methods of making". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1183343.
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