Flexible prototype thermoelectric devices based on Ag2Te and PEDOT:PSS coated nylon fibre

Scott W. Finefrock; Xiaoqin Zhu; Yanming Sun; Yue Wu

doi:10.1039/C5NR00058K

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Flexible prototype thermoelectric devices based on Ag₂Te and PEDOT:PSS coated nylon fibre†

Scott W. Finefrock,^a Xiaoqin Zhu,^a Yanming Sun^ab and Yue Wu*^c

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^a School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

^b School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China

^c Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
E-mail: yuewu@iastate.edu

Abstract

p- and n-type Ag₂Te nanocrystals are coated separately onto nylon fibres to create flexible composites. A prototype thermoelectric device made using such fibres produces ∼0.8 nW in a 20 K temperature difference. This is improved to over 5 nW by using a conducting polymer as the p-type material.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C5NR00058K
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 05 Jan 2015
Accepted: 20 Feb 2015
First published: 25 Feb 2015

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Nanoscale, 2015,7, 5598-5602

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Flexible prototype thermoelectric devices based on Ag₂Te and PEDOT:PSS coated nylon fibre

S. W. Finefrock, X. Zhu, Y. Sun and Y. Wu, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 5598 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR00058K

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