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Abstract The Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials are related but not independent, so it is difficult to improve the figure of merit value of thermoelectric materials. In the compound with nanometer grain size, a large number of surface interfaces and various defects in the material will increase the phonon scattering, resulting in the decrease of lattice thermal conductivity. Therefore, the nano-structure of the material is expected to increase its thermoelectric performance parameters. This work presents is based on the self-synthesized BN nano-materials, different structure of the thermoelectric cell composed of nanomaterial BN and thermoelectric material bismuth telluride are designed and analyzed, and its output voltage and power are simulated. Low dimensional BN nanomaterials with low thermal conductivity may contribute to reduce the overall thermal conductivity of the battery and improve the output efficiency. The thermoelectric coefficient of the thermoelectric battery is approximately calculated to be 1.22, which will satisfy the power supply requirements of some small power electronic equipment in practical application.