Inkjet-printed flexible organic thin-film thermoelectric devices based on p-and n-type poly(metal 1,1,2,2-Ethenetetrathiolate)s/polymer composites through ball-milling

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2013, 2014, Pages

  Jiao, Fei ^a   Di, Chong An ^a   Sun, Yimeng ^a   Sheng, Peng ^a   Xu, Wei ^a   Zhu, Daoben ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ball milling; Composite; Film; Inkjet printing; Metal coordination polymers; Thermoelectric

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FILMS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; MILLING (MACHINING); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; METAL-COORDINATION POLYMER; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; PRISTINE MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRONS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES;

BALL MILLING;

EID: 84896944826     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0008     Document Type: Article

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