“…There have been a few experimental studies on partial substitution at the Co-site [6,9,24,[27][28][29][30][31][32], but very few studies reported a complete set of thermoelectric properties (resistivity, thermopower, and thermal conductivity) and the figure-of-merit at high temperature [9,24,30]. Thus, in this paper, following our previous work on synthesis, mechanical and magnetic properties [33], we focused on the thermoelectric properties of Ca 3 Co 4-x M x O 9?d (where M is Cr, Fe, Ni, Zn, and Cu). The concentration of the doped transition metals was maintained at x = 0.2 to study the effect of different elemental substitution on the thermoelectric properties.…”