One of the hot materials in thermoelectric is the skutterudite CoSb3 compound, which shows excellent potential as a thermoelectric material because Sb-based skutterudite thermoelectric materials have high mobility, large atomic mass, and high electrical conductivity. The effort of substituting transition metal (Fe) or (Ni) ions at Co site is an attempt to modify the local distortion and increasing electrical conductivity. In this work, we report the synthesis of the skutterudite CoSb3 compound using a modified polyol method. We used CoCl2.6H2O, FeCl3.6H2O, NiCl2, and SbCl3 raw materials as precursors. During the process, we used polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a stabilizer. The precursors were reduced by NaBH4 in tetraethylene glycol (TEG) at 513 K in a nitrogen atmosphere with 30 minutes for holding times. The yielded products were characterized by XRD, SEM-EDX, FTIR, and electrical conductivity. From the analysis of XRD data, we found that the nanoparticles show grain size between 15 to 32 nm. The nanoparticles were mostly identified as the CoSb3 phase, and the other phase of CoSb2 was also detected. And then, from the analysis of SEM-EDX data, there was agglomeration in the samples so that the particles size become larger and unstable. The chemical bonds of samples actually in the wavenumber range below 500 cm-1. The electrical conductivity increased with increasing stoichiometry fractions of Co1-xFexSb3 (x = 0, 0.05, and 0.1) or Co1-xNixSb3 (x = 0, 0.15, and 0.2) indicating that the samples can be used as a raw material for the thermoelectric device. The values of electrical conductivity for samples lay between 103 to 104 Ω-1cm-1, which also indicates the samples were semiconductors.
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24 May 2023
PROCEEDINGS OF 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONDENSED MATTERS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS (IC2MAM)
27 October 2020
Malang, Indonesia
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May 24 2023
Synthesis and characterization of Co1-xMxSb3 (M = Fe, Ni) nanoparticles using modified polyol method
Rizky Aditya Sawitri;
Rizky Aditya Sawitri
a)
1
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
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Dicky Aditya;
Dicky Aditya
b)
1
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
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Chusnana Insjaf Yogihati;
Chusnana Insjaf Yogihati
c)
1
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
2
Center of Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy (CAMRY), Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
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Markus Diantoro;
Markus Diantoro
d)
1
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
2
Center of Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy (CAMRY), Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
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Sunaryono Sunaryono;
Sunaryono Sunaryono
e)
1
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
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Center of Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy (CAMRY), Universitas Negeri Malang
, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang 65145, Indonesia
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Suhana Mohd Said
Suhana Mohd Said
f)
3
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya
, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
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d)Corresponding author: [email protected]
AIP Conf. Proc. 2748, 020026 (2023)
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Rizky Aditya Sawitri, Dicky Aditya, Chusnana Insjaf Yogihati, Markus Diantoro, Sunaryono Sunaryono, Suhana Mohd Said; Synthesis and characterization of Co1-xMxSb3 (M = Fe, Ni) nanoparticles using modified polyol method. AIP Conf. Proc. 24 May 2023; 2748 (1): 020026. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0138590
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