Electrical conductivity of cellular Si/SiC ceramic composites prepared from plant precursors

Details Electrical conductivity of cellular Si/SiC ceramic composites prepared from plant precursors Electrical conductivity of cellular Si/SiC ceramic composites prepared from plant precursors

2006-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608668v1

J. Appl. Phys. 101, 033707 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

22 pages including 6 figures; pdf only; submitted to J. Appl. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2433137

Electrical conductivity (sigma_dc) of the cellular Si/SiC ceramic composites has been measured over a temperature range 25-1073 K while the thermoelectric power (S) has been measured over 25-300 K. Remarkably, these cellular compounds developed through biomimetic route - where the ceramic system grows within a plant bio-template retaining the structural intricacies of the native templates - are found to exhibit excellent mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties quite comparable to or even better than those of the systems prepared through conventional ceramic route. The electrical conductivity measured parallel (sigma||) and perpendicular (sigma+) to the growth axes of the native plants, depicts nearly temperature-independent anisotropy (sigma+/sigma||) of the order \~2 while the thermoelectric power is nearly isotropic. The charge conduction across the entire temperature range is found to follow closely the variable range hopping (VRH) mechanism. The conductivity anisotropy appears to be driven primarily by the unique microcellular morphology of the bio-templates which can be exploited in many electrical applications.

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