3.2 PEDOT‐based TEG flexible devices and their performances.
4 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Chemical structures and charge carriers in typical a pure electro...Table 5.2 TE properties of several representative ion‐conducting polymers.
5 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Summary of thermoelectric properties of carbon material/PEDOT:PSS ...Table 6.2 Summary of thermoelectric properties of PANI‐based composite films...Table 6.3 Summary of thermoelectric properties of TE composites using PPy or...Table 6.4 Summary of the TE properties of non‐conducting polymer composites ...
6 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Experimentally measuredσ, S, PF, μ and k values for 1D...Table 7.2 Lattice thermal conductivity and contribution of the acoustic phon...
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Band structures of (a) conductors, (b) semiconductors, and (c) in...Figure 1.2 Chemical structures of some representative conducting polymers: (...Figure 1.3 (a) A metal with different temperatures at the two sides. (b) Vol...Figure 1.4 Band structure of an n‐type semiconductor. VB and CB are for the ...Figure 1.5 Dependence of the Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, a...Figure 1.6 Dependences of the electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, ...Figure 1.7 (a) Conductivity, (b) Seebeck coefficient, and (c) power factor o...Figure 1.8 Band structures of (a) intrinsic, (b) n‐type, and (c) p‐type semi...Figure 1.9 Polyacetylene (PA) with (a) a positive soliton and (b) a negative...Figure 1.10 Structures of polyactylene in (a) neutral state, (b) low doping ...Figure 1.11 Polythiophene with (a) a polaron and (b) a bipolaron.Figure 1.12 Band structures of conducting polymers with less symmetry in (a)...Figure 1.13 (a) Intrachain, (b) interchain, and (c) inter‐domain charge tran...Figure 1.14 UV–visible–NIR absorption spectra of PANi:HCSA films casted from...Figure 1.15 Conductivity of PEDOT:PSS after secondary doping with H2SO4.Figure 1.16 Temperature dependence of the resistance of a PEDOT:PSS treated ...Figure 1.17 Structures of a composite with two phases of α and β ...Figure 1.18 Dependence of thermoelectric generation efficiency on the temper...Figure 1.19 Schematic structure of a thermoelectric module with n‐type and pFigure 1.20 Steady temperature and voltage profiles of a thermoelectric leg ...Figure 1.21 Scheme of the different heat fluxes of an n‐type thermoelectric ...Figure 1.22 (a) A thermoelectric generator with n‐ and p‐type legs. Heat tra...Figure 1.23 Variations of the power output of a TEG with the load resistance...Figure 1.24 Schematic illustration of thermoelectric cooling. An external el...
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 (a) Representative chemical structures of common conductive polym...Figure 2.2 The structures of some widely used donor and acceptor fragments....Figure 2.3 (a) Mechanism of the organic semiconductor doping process. (b) Re...Figure 2.4 (a) The schematic diagram of transfer printing PH1000 electrode. ...Figure 2.5 (a) Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, and (b) power f...Figure 2.6 Schematic of (a) doctor blade coating, (b) screen printing, and (...
3 Chapter 3Scheme 3.1 Chemical structure of PEDOT:PSS.Figure 3.1 Typical flexible TE device configuration showing multiple alterna...Figure 3.2 Flexible TE thin films with PEDOT:PSS as p‐type legs and ITO‐dope...Figure 3.3 (a) Configuration of Te‐PEDOT:PSS‐based TE devices on flexible su...Figure 3.4 (a) Photos of PEDOT:PSS‐coated paper prepared by Zhang et al....Figure 3.5 (a) Preparation of PEDOT:PSS/PVA/Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 composite films by...Figure 3.6 (a) Preparation of SnSe1−xTex nanosheets. (b) Preparation o...Figure 3.7 (a) Preparation and photos of PEDOT:PSS/SWCNT composite films by ...Figure 3.8 (a) Preparation of PEDOT/a‐SWCNT composite materials. (b) Photos ...Figure 3.9 Configuration of five PEDOT:PSS films connected by silver electro...Figure 3.10 (a) Roll‐to‐roll printing of p‐ and n‐type strips as well as the...Figure 3.11 Schematic illustration of a stencil‐printing method as well as s...Figure 3.12 Schematic illustration of the final TEG device on knitted fabric...Figure 3.13 (Left) PEDOT:PSS and PEDOT:PSS doped with V2O5 device connected ...Figure 3.14 (a) Schematic showing p‐type legs (PEDOT:PSS) and n‐type legs (T...Figure 3.15 (a) Schematic of free standing PEDOT:PSS (b) output power densit...
4 Chapter 4Scheme 4.1 Classical formation mechanism of electrochemical polymerization f...Figure 4.1 Free‐standing conductive plastic obtained by electrochemistry. (a...Figure 4.2 Illustration of the principle of measurement for the HOMO and LUM...Figure 4.3 Schematic showing (a) Formation of polaron, bipolaron, and bipola...Scheme 4.2 Illustration for p‐doping in PEDOT with their chemical and band s...Figure 4.4 Temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity (a), the Se...Figure 4.5 (a) Electrical conductivity and the Seebeck coefficient as well a...Figure 4.6 (a) Electrical conductivity and the Seebeck coefficient with (b) ...
5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Classes of organic MIECs. (a–c) MIECs categorized between heterog...Figure 5.2 TE properties of MIECs. Comparisons of (a) electrical conductivit...Figure 5.3 TE properties of ionic conductor/conducting polymer heterostructu...Figure 5.4 In‐situ Raman spectra of the ionic conductor/conducting polymer h...Figure 5.5 Ultrahigh Seebeck coefficient of cellulose ionic conductors and t...Figure 5.6 TE properties and FT‐IR spectra of ionogels. (a) Chemical structu...Figure 5.7 Applications of the IL/PEDOT:PSS heterostructure and EMIM‐TFSI/PV...Figure 5.8 Working principal of an ionic capacitor and a comparison of conve...Figure 5.9 Application of a MIEC aerogel as pressure–temperature‐humidity mu...
6 Chapter 6Scheme 6.1 Chemical structure of typical conjugated polymers in TE composite...Figure 6.1 (a) Schematic of carbon nanotubes decorated by PEDOT:PSS and TCPP...Figure 6.2 Schematic diagram of the fabrication process of CNT/conjugated po...Figure 6.3 Schematic illustration of vacuum filtration process to fabricate ...Figure 6.4 Schematic illustration showing the preparation process of the rGO...Figure 6.5 FE‐SEM images of the fracture perpendicular to the pressure direc...Figure 6.6 Schematic illustration of the synthesis procedure of PANI/graphen...Figure 6.7 Proposed hole carrier transport at CNT‐PANI‐CNT junctions. (a) Th...Figure 6.8 (a) Macro morphologies of the CNT arrays grown by CVD; (b) SEM mo...Figure 6.9 (a) SEM micrographs of a folded strip at low magnification, (b) t...Figure 6.10 Schematic representation of (a) layer‐by‐layer (LBL) self‐assemb...Figure 6.11 Synthesis of F8bpy (a), and schematic illustration showing the p...Figure 6.12 Chemical structure of (a) polycarbonate and (b) CBT oligomer (n ...Figure 6.13 The dispersed MWCNT, when mixed with polymer emulsion particles,...Figure 6.14 Schematic illustration of the preparation procedure of the PEDOT...Figure