Progress in Nickel‐Coordinated Polymers as Intrinsically Conducting n‐Type Thermoelectric Materials

Thermoelectric properties of conducting polymers

According to different sources, from forty to sixty percent of the overall energy generated in the world today is squandered in waste heat. The existing energy conversion technologies are either close to their efficiency limits or too costly to justify their implementation. Therefore, the development of new technological approaches for waste heat recovery is highly demanded. The field of thermo...

Intrinsically Conducting Polymers: An Emerging Technology

A discussion of various strategies for the intrazeolite encapsulation of polymer filaments is given. Two examples are discussed in more detail: Poly(2-ethylaniline) and pyrolyzed polyacrylonitrile in zeolite hosts. Poly(2-ethylaniline) chains were synthesized within the three-dimensional channels of dehydrated zeolites X and Y via oxidation of the intrazeolite monomers with aqueous (NH4)2S20s. ...

Recent progress in thermoelectric materials

Direct conversion of heat into electricity through advanced thermoelectric (TE) materials has been one of the most attractive solutions to the severe environmental and energy issues facing humanity. In recent years, great progress has been made in improving their dimensionless figure of merit (ZT), which determines the conversion efficiency of TE devices. ZT is related to three “interlocked” fa...

Recent Progress on PEDOT-Based Thermoelectric Materials

The thermoelectric properties of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-based materials have attracted attention recently because of their remarkable electrical conductivity, power factor, and figure of merit. In this review, we summarize recent efforts toward improving the thermoelectric properties of PEDOT-based materials. We also discuss thermoelectric measurement techniques and several un...

Understanding hopping transport and thermoelectric properties of conducting polymers