Bottom-up fabrication of thermoelectric (TE) materials from colloidal nanocrystal (NC) building blocks can substantially increase their TE efficiency, for example, by reducing lattice thermal conductivity. In this work, 10 nm spherical phase pure oleate-capped PbTe NCs with narrow size distribution were synthesized and employed to fabricate 50 nm thick films on insulating SiO2/Si substrates. The spin-coating, w...