结合固相反应法和冷高压成型技术制备了具有高度结晶各向异性的热电氧化物陶瓷NaCo2O4.X射线衍射和扫描电子显微镜测试表明冷高压压制成型后烧结有利于样品内层状晶粒的C轴沿着施压方向取向排列,形成高度织构.室温以下热电性质的测试表明,电阻率P和Seebeck系数S呈现出金属性,S〉0,属于p型热电材料.与其他方法制备的样品进行比较,虽然晶界或点缺陷对声子散射的减少导致上述样品的热导率偏高,但是由于ρ降低、S升高,使得热电品质因子ZT值提高,300K时ZT值达到0.013.
NaCo2O4 thermoelectric oxide ceramics with high crystallographic anisotropy were synthesized successfully by combining the traditional solid-state reaction and cold high pressure compacting method. XRD and SEM measurements show that the sintering after cold-high-pressure compacting is helpful to align the c-axis of layered grain within the sample along the pressing direction, i.e. the sample is highly textured. The thermoelectric properties of NaCo2O4, measured below room temperature exhibit a metallic behavior S. The sign of S is positive, indicating a p-type in both the resistivity p and Seebeck coefficient thermoelectric material. Compared with the samples prepared with other methods, although the thermal conductivity is higher due to the suppression of the phonon scattering by grain boundary or point defect, the above sample exhibits lower p and higher S which leads to the improvement of the ZT value that reaches 0.013 at 300K.