Liquid exfoliated graphene as dopant for improving the thermoelectric power factor of conductive PEDOT:PSS nanofilm with hydrazine treatment

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 14917-14925

  Xiong, Jinhua ^a   Jiang, Fengxing ^a   Shi, Hui ^a   Xu, Jingkun ^a   Liu, Congcong ^a   Zhou, Weiqiang ^a   Jiang, Qinglin ^a   Zhu, Zhengyou ^a   Hu, Yongjing ^a  

^a JIANGXI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

exfoliated graphene; hydrazine treatment; nanocomposite; PEDOT:PSS; power factor

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; FILTRATION; GRAPHENE; HYDRAZINE; IONIC LIQUIDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXFOLIATED GRAPHENE; PEDOT:PSS; POLY(4-STYRENESULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POWER FACTORS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER FACTORS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84937126689     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03692     Document Type: Article

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