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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2012
Takuji Kita, Numazu, JP;
Junnya Murai, Susono, JP;
Tomoharu Kataoka, Susono, JP;
Michael Paul Rowe, Pinckney, MI (US);
Takuji Kita, Numazu, JP;
Junnya Murai, Susono, JP;
Tomoharu Kataoka, Susono, JP;
Michael Paul Rowe, Pinckney, MI (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
A nanocomposite thermoelectric conversion material composed of a Bi(TeSe)thermoelectric conversion material (where 0≦x<1) as a matrix in which ceramic phonon scattering particles are dispersed. The nanocomposite thermoelectric conversion material produced by adjusting a first aqueous solution of a Bi complex to a higher pH value than an isoelectric point of phonon scattering particles, adding phonon scattering particles not modified on their surface to the pH adjusted first aqueous solution, and mixing the first aqueous solution to which phonon scattering particles have been added and a second aqueous solution including at least the former of Te anions and Se anions.