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Khan ZU, Edberg J, Hamedi MM, et al. Thermoelectric Polymers and their Elastic Aerogels. Adv Mater. 2016;28(22):4556-62doi: 10.1002/adma.201505364.
Khan, Z. U., Edberg, J., Hamedi, M. M., Gabrielsson, R., Granberg, H., Wågberg, L., Engquist, I., Berggren, M., & Crispin, X. (2016). Thermoelectric Polymers and their Elastic Aerogels. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 28(22), 4556-62. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201505364
Khan, Zia Ullah, et al. "Thermoelectric Polymers and their Elastic Aerogels." Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) vol. 28,22 (2016): 4556-62. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201505364
Khan ZU, Edberg J, Hamedi MM, Gabrielsson R, Granberg H, Wågberg L, Engquist I, Berggren M, Crispin X. Thermoelectric Polymers and their Elastic Aerogels. Adv Mater. 2016 Jun;28(22):4556-62. doi: 10.1002/adma.201505364. Epub 2016 Feb 02. PMID: 26836440.
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Adv Mater. 2016 Jun;28(22):4556-62. doi: 10.1002/adma.201505364. Epub 2016 Feb 02.

Thermoelectric Polymers and their Elastic Aerogels.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

Zia Ullah Khan, Jesper Edberg, Mahiar Max Hamedi, Roger Gabrielsson, Hjalmar Granberg, Lars Wågberg, Isak Engquist, Magnus Berggren, Xavier Crispin

Affiliations

  1. Department of Science and Technology, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University, S-60174, Norrköping, Sweden.
  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Chemical Science and Engineering (CHE), Fiber and Polymer Technology and Wallenberg Wood Science Center, SE-100 44, Stockholm.
  3. Innventia AB, Box 5604, SE-114 86, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 26836440 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201505364

Abstract

Electronically conducting polymers constitute an emerging class of materials for novel electronics, such as printed electronics and flexible electronics. Their properties have been further diversified to introduce elasticity, which has opened new possibility for "stretchable" electronics. Recent discoveries demonstrate that conducting polymers have thermoelectric properties with a low thermal conductivity, as well as tunable Seebeck coefficients - which is achieved by modulating their electrical conductivity via simple redox reactions. Using these thermoelectric properties, all-organic flexible thermoelectric devices, such as temperature sensors, heat flux sensors, and thermoelectric generators, are being developed. In this article we discuss the combination of the two emerging fields: stretchable electronics and polymer thermoelectrics. The combination of elastic and thermoelectric properties seems to be unique for conducting polymers, and difficult to achieve with inorganic thermoelectric materials. We introduce the basic concepts, and state of the art knowledge, about the thermoelectric properties of conducting polymers, and illustrate the use of elastic thermoelectric conducting polymer aerogels that could be employed as temperature and pressure sensors in an electronic-skin.

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Keywords: aerogels; conducting polymers; e-skin; sensors; thermoelectric

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