A facile surface treatment utilizing binary mixtures of ammonium salts and polar solvents for multiply enhancing thermoelectric PEDOT: PSS films

Autor: Tsung Che Tsai, Hsiu Cheng Chang, Yi Chia Huang, Wha-Tzong Whang, Chun-Hua Chen, Tsung Han Chen
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. 52:3303-3306
ISSN: 0887-624X
DOI: 10.1002/pola.27402
Popis: INTRODUCTION Poly(3,4ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styre nesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) is a widely investigated ionic conducting polymer (ICP) in many research aspects and serves also as a promising thermoelectric polymer along with its potentially high and tunable electrical conductivity. The effectiveness of a thermoelectric material is related to the dimensionless figure-of-merit (ZT) defined as rST/r, where r is the electrical conductivity, S is the Seebeck coefficient, j is the thermal conductivity, and T is the absolute temperature. Ongoing research efforts on PEDOT:PSS are largely targeted at improving the electrical conductivity mainly due to less-effective strategies in modifying Seebeck coefficient and the intrinsically low thermal conductivity.
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