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Thermoelectrics: Flexible Thermoelectric Polymer Composites Based on a Carbon Nanotubes Forest (Adv. Funct. Mater. 40/2018)
Author(s) -
Yusupov Khabib,
Stumpf Steffi,
You Shujie,
Bogach Aleksei,
Martinez Patricia M.,
Zakhidov Anvar,
Schubert Ulrich S.,
Khovaylo Vladimir,
Vomiero Alberto
Publication year - 2018
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.201870285
Subject(s) - materials science , carbon nanotube , polystyrene sulfonate , thermoelectric effect , pedot:pss , composite material , thermoelectric materials , seebeck coefficient , conductive polymer , polystyrene , polymer , thermal conductivity , physics , thermodynamics
In article number 1801246 , Khabib Yusupov, Alberto Vomiero, and co‐workers combine vertically aligned carbon nanotubes forests (VA‐CNTFs) as fillers and chemical post‐treatment in polymer‐based high‐efficiency thermoelectric composites, by dispersing VA‐CNTF into a poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) matrix. An increased Seebeck coefficient (58.7 mV K −1 ) and electrical conductivity (1131 S cm −1 ) after treatments at the lowest operating temperature difference ever are reported. These results are critical towards the development of high‐efficiency, low‐temperature, flexible thermoelectrics.