A Free-Standing High-Output Power Density Thermoelectric Device Based on Structure-Ordered PEDOT:PSSShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Advanced Electronic Materials, E-ISSN 2199-160X, Vol. 4, no 2, article id 1700496Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A free-standing high-output power density polymeric thermoelectric (TE) device is realized based on a highly conductive (approximate to 2500 S cm(-1)) structure-ordered poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate film (denoted as FS-PEDOT:PSS) with a Seebeck coefficient of 20.6 mu V K-1, an in-plane thermal conductivity of 0.64 W m(-1) K-1, and a peak power factor of 107 mu W K-2 m(-1) at room temperature. Under a small temperature gradient of 29 K, the TE device demonstrates a maximum output power density of 99 +/- 18.7 mu W cm(-2), which is the highest value achieved in pristine PEDOT:PSS based TE devices. In addition, a fivefold output power is demonstrated by series connecting five devices into a flexible thermoelectric module. The simplicity of assembling the films into flexible thermoelectric modules, the low out-of-plane thermal conductivity of 0.27 W m(-1) K-1, and free-standing feature indicates the potential to integrate the FS-PEDOT:PSS TE modules with textiles to power wearable electronics by harvesting human bodys heat. In addition to the high power factor, the high thermal stability of the FS-PEDOT:PSS films up to 250 degrees C is confirmed by in situ temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction and grazing incident wide angle X-ray scattering, which makes the FS-PEDOT:PSS films promising candidates for thermoelectric applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley-VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018. Vol. 4, no 2, article id 1700496
Keywords [en]
free-standing PEDOT:PSS film; output power density; p-type; thermoelectric generators
National Category
Other Materials Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-145465DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700496ISI: 000424888600015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85039784826OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-145465DiVA, id: diva2:1190152
Note
Funding Agencies|Vinnova Marie Curie incoming project [2016-04112]; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University [200900971]; Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts; National Natural Science Foundation of China [21474035]; United States National Science Foundation [DMR-1262261]; Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices [2016-skllmd-03]; European Research Council [ERC 307596]
2018-03-132018-03-132023-12-06Bibliographically approved