Flexible thermoelectric fabrics based on self-assembled tellurium nanorods with a large power factor

Chaochao Dun; Corey A Hewitt; Huihui Huang; David S Montgomery; Junwei Xu; David L Carroll

doi:10.1039/c4cp05390g

Flexible thermoelectric fabrics based on self-assembled tellurium nanorods with a large power factor

Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2015 Apr 14;17(14):8591-5. doi: 10.1039/c4cp05390g. Epub 2015 Jan 26.

Authors

Chaochao Dun¹, Corey A Hewitt, Huihui Huang, David S Montgomery, Junwei Xu, David L Carroll

Affiliation

¹ Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. huangh@wfu.edu carroldl@wfu.edu.

PMID: 25620157
DOI: 10.1039/c4cp05390g

Abstract

Highly-flexible thermoelectric fabrics were fabricated based on a layered structure, composed of a thin active layer of self-assembled tellurium nanorods and a substrate layer of polyvinylidene fluoride. The resulting thermoelectric fabrics show a high room temperature power factor of 45.8 μW m(-1) K(-2), which opens a new avenue to fabricate highly-flexible sustainable energy sources.