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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2018
Applicant:

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (US);

Inventors:

Xueyan Song, Morgantown, WV (US);

Yun Chen, Morgantown, WV (US);

Assignee:

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 35/22 (2006.01); C04B 35/01 (2006.01); C04B 35/624 (2006.01); C04B 35/626 (2006.01); C04B 35/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 35/22 (2013.01); C04B 35/016 (2013.01); C04B 35/624 (2013.01); C04B 35/6262 (2013.01); C04B 35/6267 (2013.01); C04B 35/62655 (2013.01); C04B 35/62695 (2013.01); C04B 35/64 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3208 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3268 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3281 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3298 (2013.01); C04B 2235/77 (2013.01); C04B 2235/785 (2013.01); C04B 2235/786 (2013.01); C04B 2235/79 (2013.01); C04B 2235/80 (2013.01); C04B 2235/85 (2013.01); C04B 2235/96 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, the disclosure relates to thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions comprising a CaMnOceramic. In a further aspect, the disclosed thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions can dramatically increase the energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric through a combination of modifying the chemistry of precursor materials, and simultaneously introducing a metal oxide liquid phase during sintering. In a further aspect, the present disclosure pertains to thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions comprising a metal doped CaMnOhaving with a metal oxide grain boundary phase; wherein the metal is selected from group 13, group 14, group 15, group 16, or a rare earth element. In a still further aspect, the disclosure relates to methods for making the thermoelectric ceramic oxide materials. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.


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