Thermovoltaic properties of hornet silk

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 852-860

  Volynchik, S ^a   Plotkin, M ^a   Ermakov, N Y ^a   Bergman, D J ^a   Ishay, J S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electrical measurements; Ferroelectric materials; Hornet silk; Organic semiconductors; Social insects; Thermoelectric organic compounds

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

ELECTRIC VOLTAGE; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; FERROELECTRICS MATERIALS; HORNET SILK; HYMENOPTERA; PROPERTY; SOCIAL INSECTS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT CHANGES; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC ORGANIC COMPOUND;

SILK;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; COOLING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HYSTERESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SILK; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WARMING; WASP;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPA ORIENTALIS; VESPINAE;

EID: 33750722149     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20360     Document Type: Article

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