Excess thermopower and the theory of thermopower waves

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 6533-6544

  Abrahamson, Joel T ^a   Sempere, Bernat ^a,c   Walsh, Michael P ^a   Forman, Jared M ^a,b   Şen, Fatih ^a,d   Şen, Selda ^a,e   Mahajan, Sayalee G ^a   Paulus, Geraldine L C ^a   Wang, Qing Hua ^a   Choi, Wonjoon ^a   Strano, Michael S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT QUÍMIC DE SARRIÀ   (Spain)

^d DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; chemical potential; electronic doping; energy storage; thermoelectric; thermopower waves

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL GRADIENT; ELECTRICAL PULSE; ELECTRONIC DOPING; EXOTHERMIC CHEMICAL REACTION; FIGURES OF MERITS; QUANTITATIVE THEORY; THERMAL CONDUCTORS; THERMOELECTRIC;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY STORAGE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 84883221731     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402411k     Document Type: Article

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