Enhanced thermoelectric performance of PEDOT:PSS flexible bulky papers by treatment with secondary dopants

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 94-100

  Mengistie, Desalegn A ^a,b,c   Chen, Chang Hsiao ^d   Boopathi, Karunakara M ^a,b,e   Pranoto, Ferry W ^d   Li, Lain Jong ^d   Chu, Chih Wei ^b,f  

^a Taiwan Intl Grad Prog Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (TIGP CLCLP)   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

conductive polymer; conductivity enhancement; flexible thermoelectrics; PEDOT:PSS; power factor; Seebeck coefficient

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FORMIC ACID; POLYOLS; SEEBECK COEFFICIENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; PEDOT:PSS; POWER FACTORS; THERMOELECTRICS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84921266962     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am507032e     Document Type: Article

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