Development of a cooling fabric from conducting polymer coated fibres: Proof of concept

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-143

  Hu, Eric ^a   Kaynak, Akif ^a   Li, Yuncang ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conducting polymers; Cooling effect; Peltier effect; Textiles

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PELTIER EFFECT; POLYPYRROLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEEBECK EFFECT; TEXTILES;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; COOLING EFFECT; ELECTRICAL DEGRADATION; THOMSON EFFECT;

FABRICS;

COOLING; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FABRIC; POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 17644383310     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2005.01.018     Document Type: Article

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