biostudies-literatureUnknown6Xu RSeeking new strategies to tune the intrinsic defect and optimize the thermoelectric performance via no or less use of external doped elements (i.e., plain optimization) is an important method to realize the sustainable development of thermoelectric materials. Meanwhile, creating dislocation defects in oxide systems is quite challenging because the rigid and stiff ionic/covalent bonds can hardly tolerate the large strain energy associated with dislocations. Herein, taking BiCuSeO oxide as an example, the present work reports a successful construction of dense lattice dislocations in BiCuSeO by self-doping of Se at the O site (i.e., Se_O self-substitution), and achieves plain optimization of the thermoelectric properties with only external Pb doping. Owing to the self-substitution-Research (Washington, D.C.)0123https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10243199biostudies-literatureRealizing Plain Optimization of the Thermoelectric Properties in BiCuSeO Oxide via Self-Substitution-Induced Lattice Dislocations.PMC10243199Kong MGe BXu RLi QBai WSong JYang XZhu NLi ZChen ZWang RWan HXiao CfalseRealizing Plain Optimization of the Thermoelectric Properties in BiCuSeO Oxide via Self-Substitution-Induced Lattice Dislocations.Seeking new strategies to tune the intrinsic defect and optimize the thermoelectric performance via no or less use of external doped elements (i.e., plain optimization) is an important method to realize the sustainable development of thermoelectric materials. Meanwhile, creating dislocation defects in oxide systems is quite challenging because the rigid and stiff ionic/covalent bonds can hardly tolerate the large strain energy associated with dislocations. Herein, taking BiCuSeO oxide as an example, the present work reports a successful construction of dense lattice dislocations in BiCuSeO by self-doping of Se at the O site (i.e., Se_O self-substitution), and achieves plain optimization of the thermoelectric properties with only external Pb doping. Owing to the self-substitution-2023-01-01T00:00:00Z20232025-04-19T07:21:22.082Z2025-04-19T07:21:22.082ZS-EPMC102431993728789110.34133/research.0123