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Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2015 Apr 14;17(14):8591-5. doi: 10.1039/c4cp05390g. Epub 2015 Jan 26.

Flexible thermoelectric fabrics based on self-assembled tellurium nanorods with a large power factor.

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

Chaochao Dun, Corey A Hewitt, Huihui Huang, David S Montgomery, Junwei Xu, David L Carroll

Affiliations

  1. Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 25620157 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp05390g

Abstract

Highly-flexible thermoelectric fabrics were fabricated based on a layered structure, composed of a thin active layer of self-assembled tellurium nanorods and a substrate layer of polyvinylidene fluoride. The resulting thermoelectric fabrics show a high room temperature power factor of 45.8 μW m(-1) K(-2), which opens a new avenue to fabricate highly-flexible sustainable energy sources.

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