Issue 5, 2020

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of flexible organic/inorganic thermoelectric composites

Abstract

Thermoelectrics can recover waste heat, environmental heat or heats from different sources and convert it to electricity. Inorganic or metal thermoelectrics have higher ZT values and efficiency; however, they are also expensive, rigid or have poor mechanical properties, and they contain toxic or rare elements. Organic thermoelectrics have low cost, flexible mechanical properties, and facile and rapid formation; however, they have very low ZT values and efficiency compared with inorganic materials. Organic–inorganic composite thermoelectrics can benefit from both properties and are also extremely competitive for commercial applications. This review will focus on flexible organic–inorganic composite thermoelectrics and devices as well as their challenges.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of flexible organic/inorganic thermoelectric composites

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
05 May 2020
Accepted
23 Jun 2020
First published
24 Jun 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2020,1, 1038-1054

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of flexible organic/inorganic thermoelectric composites

Q. Jiang, J. Yang, P. Hing and H. Ye, Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 1038 DOI: 10.1039/D0MA00278J

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