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Charge-balanced codoping enables exceeding doping limit and ultralow thermal conductivity

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  • Author Bio:

    Long Chen is currently a master’s student at the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, under the supervision of Prof. Changzheng Wu and Prof. Yongchun Zhu. His research mainly focuses on 2D materials with ultralow thermal transport properties

    Yongchun Zhu is currently a Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She received her Ph.D. degree from USTC in 2006. Her research interests include lithium-ion/sodium-ion batteries, aqueous batteries, metal-air battery and materials with ultralow thermal conductivity

    Changzheng Wu is currently a Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Ph.D. degree from USTC in 2007. His research interests include preparation and characterization of two-dimensional materials with excellent physical properties, oxygen reduction catalysts and fuel cells, relevant mechanism and functional application of transition metal oxide materials

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: ychzhu@ustc.edu.cn; E-mail: czwu@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 23 February 2024
  • Accepted Date: 01 April 2024
  • Available Online: 15 July 2024
  • Materials with low thermal conductivity are applied extensively in energy management, and breaking the amorphous limits of thermal conductivity to solids has attracted widespread attention from scientists. Doping is a common strategy for achieving low thermal conductivity that can offer abundant scattering centers in which heavier dopants always result in lower phonon group velocities and lower thermal conductivities. However, the amount of equivalent heavy-atom single dopant available is limited. Unfortunately, nonequivalent heavy dopants have finite solubility because of charge imbalance. Here, we propose a charge balance strategy for SnS by substituting Sn2+ with Ag+ and heavy Bi3+, improving the doping limit of Ag from 2% to 3%. Ag and Bi codoping increases the point defect concentration and introduces abundant boundaries simultaneously, scattering the phonons at both the atomic scale and nanoscale. The thermal conductivity of Ag0.03Bi0.03Sn0.94S decreased to 0.535 W·m−1·K−1 at room temperature and 0.388 W·m−1·K−1 at 275 ℃, which is below the amorphous limit of 0.450 W·m−1·K−1 for SnS. This strategy offers a simple way to enhance the doping limit and achieve ultralow thermal conductivity in solids below the amorphous limit without precise structural modification.
    Ag, Bi codoping leads to ultralow thermal conductivity in SnS.
    Materials with low thermal conductivity are applied extensively in energy management, and breaking the amorphous limits of thermal conductivity to solids has attracted widespread attention from scientists. Doping is a common strategy for achieving low thermal conductivity that can offer abundant scattering centers in which heavier dopants always result in lower phonon group velocities and lower thermal conductivities. However, the amount of equivalent heavy-atom single dopant available is limited. Unfortunately, nonequivalent heavy dopants have finite solubility because of charge imbalance. Here, we propose a charge balance strategy for SnS by substituting Sn2+ with Ag+ and heavy Bi3+, improving the doping limit of Ag from 2% to 3%. Ag and Bi codoping increases the point defect concentration and introduces abundant boundaries simultaneously, scattering the phonons at both the atomic scale and nanoscale. The thermal conductivity of Ag0.03Bi0.03Sn0.94S decreased to 0.535 W·m−1·K−1 at room temperature and 0.388 W·m−1·K−1 at 275 ℃, which is below the amorphous limit of 0.450 W·m−1·K−1 for SnS. This strategy offers a simple way to enhance the doping limit and achieve ultralow thermal conductivity in solids below the amorphous limit without precise structural modification.
    • Codoping Bi with Ag increases the solubility of Ag from 2% to 3% because of the charge balance, increasing the scattering center concentration to three times that of SnS doped with Ag alone.
    • The lowest thermal conductivity appears for Ag0.03Bi0.03Sn0.94S, 0.535 W·m−1·K−1 at room temperature and 0.388 W·m−1·K−1 at 275 °C, below the amorphous limit of SnS (0.45 W·m−1·K−1), which is a tremendous increase.
    • Point defects at the atomic scale and grain boundaries at the nanoscale scatter phonons synergistically, providing insight into ultralow thermal conductivity.

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    Figure  1.  (a) Illustration of atomic mass of metals with trivalent ions. Darker colors mean heavier atomic mass, and the radii of the circles reflect of their trivalent ions. Top scheme shows phonons’ group velocity declines when meeting with heavier atoms. (b) Illustration of SnS crystal structure and changes after charge balance codoping, in which gray, yellow, purple and green balls refers to Sn2+, S2−, Bi3+ and Ag+, respectively.

    Figure  2.  (a) XRD patterns of Sn1-2xAgxBixS (x = 0, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03). (b) SEM‒EDS mapping of Sn0.94Ag0.03Bi0.03S, showing even dispersion. (c, d) SEM images of Sn0.94Ag0.03Bi0.03S pellets from top view and beveled view, respectively. XPS spectra of SnS and Sn0.94Ag0.03Bi0.03S: (e, f) 3d orbitals of Sn element; (g) 2p orbitals of S element and 4f orbitals of Bi; (h) 3d orbitals of Ag element.

    Figure  3.  Thermal transport properties of Sn1-2xAgxBixS (x = 0, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03). (a) Thermal conductivity parallel to the press. (b) Thermal conductivity vertical to the press. (c) Thermal diffusivity parallel to the press. (d) Compare of ultralow thermal conductivity of SnS in previous researched and this work.

    Figure  4.  (a) HAADF-STEM image of Sn0.94Ag0.03Bi0.03S along the (100) direction, where Sn and S atoms are depicted in gray and yellow; the red circles are highlighted Bi atoms. The right panel shows the crystal structure of SnS in the same projection. (b) HRTEM-EDS mapping of Sn0.94Ag0.03Bi0.03S. (c, d) HRTEM images of SnS and Sn0.94Ag0.03Bi0.03S, respectively. Insets are enlarged images of selected areas. (e) FFT image of the selected area in (d), showing distinct two sets of diffraction spots.

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