Flexible thermoelectric materials and devices

By Yong Du, Jiayue Xu, B. Paul, P. Eklund. Applied Materials Today, 2018

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Abstract Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) can directly convert waste heat into electrical power. In the last few decades, most research on thermoelectrics has focused on inorganic bulk thermoelectric materials and corresponding devices, and their thermoelectric properties have been significantly improved. An emerging topic is flexible devices, where the use of bulk inorganic materials is precluded by their inherent rigidity. The purpose of this paper is to review the research progress on flexible thermoelectric materials and generators, including theoretical principles for TEGs, conducting polymer TE materials, nanocomposites comprised of inorganic nanostructures in polymer matrices and fully inorganic flexible TE materials in nanostructured thin films. Approaches for flexible TEGs and components are reviewed, and remaining challenges discussed.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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• A review on recent developments of thermoelectric materials for room-temperature applications (2020, background): “[13] reviwed the performance of only flexible TE materials, including inorganic, organic, and hybrid, but not the rigid ones.”
• Flexible Electronics: Status, Challenges and Opportunities (2020, background): “Organic materials like poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) and polyaniline have demonstrated competent thermoelectric (TE) figures of merit and transport behaviors, enhanced processability into versatile forms, low density, easy synthesis, and lower costs than inorgani”
• Review of thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization for performance enhancement (2020, background): “For in-depth understanding of current thermoelectric material research, these two review papers [12] and [13] are recommended.”