Recent progress on PEDOT-based thermoelectric materials

Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 732-750

  Wei, Qingshuo ^a   Mukaida, Masakazu ^a   Kirihara, Kazuhiro ^a   Naitoh, Yasuhisa ^a   Ishida, Takao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropicity; Energy conversion; Organic semiconductors; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ENERGY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; WATER ABSORPTION;

ANISOTROPICITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; POLY(3 ,4 ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE) (PEDOT); THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MODULES; THERMOELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICS;

THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 84923673403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma8020732     Document Type: Review

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