Issue 10, 2017

Flexible unipolar thermoelectric devices based on patterned poly[Kx(Ni-ethylenetetrathiolate)] thin films

Abstract

By printing polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate as a mask, an insoluble and infusible metal coordination polymer, poly[Kx(Ni-ethylenetetrathiolate)] (poly[Kx(Ni-ett)]), film was patterned via an electrochemical deposition process. The method is verified to be capable of fabricating 108 n-type legs in one batch. A thermoelectric generator consisting of eighteen legs connected in series in one row had an output power of 0.468 μW under a temperature difference of 12 K with the best power density reaching up to 577.8 μW cm−2.

Graphical abstract: Flexible unipolar thermoelectric devices based on patterned poly[Kx(Ni-ethylenetetrathiolate)] thin films

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
16 5 2017
Accepted
18 7 2017
First published
18 7 2017

Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 2111-2116

Flexible unipolar thermoelectric devices based on patterned poly[Kx(Ni-ethylenetetrathiolate)] thin films

L. Liu, Y. Sun, W. Li, J. Zhang, X. Huang, Z. Chen, Y. Sun, C. Di, W. Xu and D. Zhu, Mater. Chem. Front., 2017, 1, 2111 DOI: 10.1039/C7QM00223H

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