Facile preparation and thermoelectric properties of Bi2Te 3 based alloy nanosheet/PEDOT:PSS composite films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5735-5743

  Du, Yong ^a,b   Cai, K F ^a,c   Chen, Song ^a   Cizek, Pavel ^b   Lin, Tong ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

composite films; poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4 styrenesulfonate); thermoelectric properties

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DROPS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

3 ,4- ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; ALLOY BULKS; DROP CASTING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FACILE PREPARATION; HIGH POWER FACTOR; POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84899505132     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5002772     Document Type: Article

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