PHONON SCATTERING MATERIAL, NANOCOMPOSITE THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide: a compound which has a sufficient phonon-scattering interfacial area; a nanocomposite thermoelectric material including the compound; and a method of producing the nanocomposite thermoelectric material.SOLUTION: There is provided a compound which is mixed with a thermoelectric conversion material matrix as a phonon scattering material and represented by the following formula (in the formula, Grepresents a functional group capable of binding to the thermoelectric conversion material matrix, Gindependently represents Gor CH, and 0≤m≤5, 0≤m'≤5, 6≤n≤1,000 and 1/1,000<(the number of G/n)≤1) are satisfied).