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Thermoelectrics: Tuning Thermal Transport in Chain‐Oriented Conducting Polymers for Enhanced Thermoelectric Efficiency: A Computational Study (Adv. Funct. Mater. 40/2017)
Author(s) -
Shi Wen,
Shuai Zhigang,
Wang Dong
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201770239
Subject(s) - materials science , thermoelectric materials , thermoelectric effect , polymer , figure of merit , crystallinity , thermal conductivity , thermal , chain (unit) , nanotechnology , lattice (music) , engineering physics , optoelectronics , composite material , thermodynamics , physics , astronomy , acoustics
Strategies to tune thermal transport in conducting polymers are proposed by Dong Wang and co‐workers in article number 1702847 . Molecular dynamics simulations show that rationally tailoring the chain length and the crystallinity dramatically suppresses the lattice thermal conductivity along the polymer backbone. As a consequence, one order‐of‐magnitude increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit is achieved.