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Application of Microwave Radiation in Modified Polyol Process for Synthesis Pure, Te-Doped, and Sn-Doped CoSb₃ Thermoelectric Materials

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Synthesis routes of CoSb₃ need a long reaction time, especially at high temperature and-/or high pressure. Although the modified polyol process assisted with microwave radiation can be used to solve these problems, it used the excess amount of Sb ion. Therefore, this study aimed to solve this drawback by retarding the rate of reduction. The different microwave times (0, 1, and 3 min) were investigated to find out the shortest heating duration for preparing CoSb₃nanoparticles. Te-doped and Sn-doped CoSb₃ were synthesized to investigate the benefit of this synthesis method for increasing the solubility limit of Te and Sn in the CoSb₃ structure. The phase and microstructure of the synthesized products were characterized by using x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). The results showed that the high crystalline phase of CoSb₃ (JCPDS: 78-0977) without any metallic impurity phases product was successfully synthesized in 3 minutes for a heating time at normal pressure, non-excessive addition of Sb ion precursor, and low temperature. The XRD results of Te-doped and Sn-doped CoSb₃ products exhibited poor crystalline phase and hard to exactly identify. In SEM and TEM results, the CoSb₃ powder consisted of very tiny spherical-like particles around 10 nanometers attaching together even at different microwave time similar to Te-doped/Sn-doped samples.

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Thammanoon Kapanya, Chanchana Thanachayanont, Adisorn Tuantranont, Thapanee Sarakonsri*

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Doped CoSb₃, Microwave Radiation, Modified Polyol Process, Short Reaction Time

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