▎ 摘　　要

Nanocomposites can simultaneously enhance the thermoelectric and mechanical properties of thermoelectric materials. Here, we fabricated bulks of Mg1.96Al0.04Si0.97Bi0.03 with monodispersed few-layered reduced graphene oxides utilizing ultrasonic-based wet chemical pulverizing-mixing and spark plasma sintering to improve unfavorable trade-off between thermoelectric performance and mechanical reliability, which is important for commercialization. An unexpected high fracture toughness of similar to 1.88 MPa m(1/2) was observed due to the synergetic effect of the deflection of crack propagation, bridging, and sheet pull-out mechanisms, and a high thermoelectric figure of merit similar to 0.6 was obtained even for a high content (3 vol.%) of reduced graphene oxides. (C) 2018 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.