Back to Search
Start Over
6.14 Organic Thermoelectric Composites Materials
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2018.
-
Abstract
- The use of thermoelectric technology is attractive in many potential applications, such as energy scavenging from waste heat. The basic principles for harvesting electricity from a temperature gradient were first discovered around 180 years ago, but the contemporary technology utilizing inorganic semiconductors was only developed since the early 1950s. The widespread use of this platform has so far been limited by a combination of relatively low efficiency in energy conversion or by issues related to the utilization of rare, expensive and/or toxic elements that can be difficult to process. Much interest has been focused on the use of organic materials in thermoelectric devices, prompted by the possibility of developing large-area, low-cost devices. Research over the last 20 years has been focused on understanding and improving organic thermoelectric properties, but only recently remarkable progress published for compounds such as poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) have attracted considerable attention. This has opened the door to developing a number of organic–inorganic composites for thermoelectric applications which combine the inherently low thermal conductivity and solution processing of organic materials with the high electrical conductivity of many inorganics.
- Subjects :
- Thermoelectric cooling
Materials science
Nanotechnology
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Thermoelectric materials
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
Waste heat
Thermoelectric effect
Energy transformation
Composite material
0210 nano-technology
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........68074e373e71338bcd70a2b44f786d49
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-803581-8.10024-4