Review on polymers for thermoelectric applications

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 6701-6732

  Culebras, Mario ^a   Gómez, Clara M ^a   Cantarero, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intrinsically conducting polymers; Nanocomposites; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ELECTRONIC CONFINEMENT; INORGANIC MATERIALS; INTRINSICALLY CONDUCTING POLYMER; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ORGANIC MATERIALS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRICS;

THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84923047108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7096701     Document Type: Review

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