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However, the poor machinability and susceptibility to brittle fracturing of commercial ingots often impose significant limitations on the manufacturing process and durability of thermoelectric devices. In this study, melt spinning combined with a plasma‐activated sintering (MS‐PAS) method is employed for commercial p‐type zone‐melted (ZM) ingots of Bi 0.5 Sb 1.5 Te 3 . This fast synthesis approach achieves hierarchical structures and in‐situ nanoscale precipitates, resulting in the simultaneous improvement of the thermoelectric performance and the mechanical properties. Benefitting from a strong suppression of the lattice thermal conductivity, a peak ZT of 1.22 is achieved at 340 K in MS‐PAS synthesized structures, representing about a 40% enhancement over that of ZM ingots. Moreover, MS‐PAS specimens with hierarchical structures exhibit superior machinability and mechanical properties with an almost 30% enhancement in their fracture toughness, combined with an eightfold and a factor of six increase in the compressive and flexural strength, respectively. Accompanied by an excellent thermal stability up to 200 °C for the MS‐PAS synthesized samples, the MS‐PAS technique demonstrates great potential for mass production and large‐scale applications of Bi 2 Te 3 related thermoelectrics.","claims":[{"public_id":"cl_1e5f90c678bbf343c49d0de5d699a5de","status":"active","text":"A peak ZT of 1.22 is achieved at 340 K, representing about a 40% enhancement over zone-melted ingots.","confidence":0.98,"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous (12632b8b5f)","roles":["extraction"],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/u/12632b8b5f"}],"url":"https://sah.borca.ai/claims/cl_1e5f90c678bbf343c49d0de5d699a5de"},{"public_id":"cl_2c32d527dc26445fec92540765207aa8","status":"active","text":"Fracture toughness improves by almost 30%, while compressive strength and flexural strength increase eightfold and sixfold, respectively.","confidence":0.96,"contributors":[{"id":1,"public_id":"12632b8b5f","public_label":"Anonymous 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