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Design of Advanced Thermoelectric Materials
Shaabani, Laaya
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Publication date: 2018
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Stellingen
Behorende bij het proefschrift
Design of Advanced Thermoelectric Materials
door
Laaya Shaabani
1. Designing new material for thermoelectric studies with several parameters to be optimized can take several months of one’s PhD and can be more risky compared to materials that are already well known.
2. Na-doped lead chalcogenide quaternary systems can certainly compete with PbTe, one of the most important thermoelectric materials.
3. Tailoring the thermoelectric properties to develop materials with superior performance is the main challenge in thermoelectric conversion technology.
4. The simplicity of a zT graph can be inversely proportional to the amount of work that generated it.
5. Successful chemical synthesis in the lab requires a combination of many factors including knowledge, experience, curiosity, patience and fortune.
6. Recording the details of experiments in the lab book is the best way to find out the critical points, and can speed up the research process.
