| Sumario: | Thermoelectrical properties of cobaltite ceramics can be tuned up by choosing the adequate synthetic method, cation substitution and subsequent grain orientation. This can be performed preparing the ceramics by a polymer solution method, using Pb partially substituting Bi, and texturing by directionally growing from the melt. In this work, Bi2-xPbxCa2Co1.7Oy (x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6) ceramics, prepared by a polymer solution method, have been directionally grown, with the Laser Floating Zone (LFZ) technique, at 30 mm/h. In all the cases, the microstructure shows alternated layers with small CoO inclusions. It has been found a very important decrease on the resistivity and, at the same time, on the thermopower. However, the power factor values are improved with Pb addition, reaching power factor values, for samples with 0.4 Pb substitution, as high as two times the values obtained for undoped ones.
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