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Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices

Though solar cells are one of the promising technologies to address the energy crisis, this technology is still far from commercialization. Thermoelectric materials offer a novel opportunity to convert energy between thermal and electrical aspects, which show the feasibility to improve the performan...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xiaoyan, Pan, Shuang, Song, Huanhuan, Guo, Wengai, Zhao, Shiqiang, Chen, Guang, Zhang, Qingcheng, Jin, Huile, Zhang, Lijie, Chen, Yihuang, Wang, Shun
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8107684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33981678
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.677821
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author Zhang, Xiaoyan
Pan, Shuang
Song, Huanhuan
Guo, Wengai
Zhao, Shiqiang
Chen, Guang
Zhang, Qingcheng
Jin, Huile
Zhang, Lijie
Chen, Yihuang
Wang, Shun
author_facet Zhang, Xiaoyan
Pan, Shuang
Song, Huanhuan
Guo, Wengai
Zhao, Shiqiang
Chen, Guang
Zhang, Qingcheng
Jin, Huile
Zhang, Lijie
Chen, Yihuang
Wang, Shun
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description Though solar cells are one of the promising technologies to address the energy crisis, this technology is still far from commercialization. Thermoelectric materials offer a novel opportunity to convert energy between thermal and electrical aspects, which show the feasibility to improve the performance of solar cells via heat management and light harvesting. Polymer–inorganic thermoelectric nanocomposites consisting of inorganic nanomaterials and functional organic polymers represent one kind of advanced hybrid nanomaterials with tunable optical and electrical characteristics and fascinating interfacial and surface chemistry. During the past decades, they have attracted extensive research interest due to their diverse composition, easy synthesis, and large surface area. Such advanced nanomaterials not only inherit low thermal conductivity from polymers and high Seebeck coefficient, and high electrical conductivity from inorganic materials, but also benefit from the additional interface between each component. In this review, we provide an overview of interfacial chemistry engineering and electrical feature of various polymer–inorganic thermoelectric hybrid nanomaterials, including synthetic methods, properties, and applications in thermoelectric devices. In addition, the prospect and challenges of polymer–inorganic nanocomposites are discussed in the field of thermoelectric energy.
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spelling pubmed-81076842021-05-11 Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices Zhang, Xiaoyan Pan, Shuang Song, Huanhuan Guo, Wengai Zhao, Shiqiang Chen, Guang Zhang, Qingcheng Jin, Huile Zhang, Lijie Chen, Yihuang Wang, Shun Front Chem Chemistry Though solar cells are one of the promising technologies to address the energy crisis, this technology is still far from commercialization. Thermoelectric materials offer a novel opportunity to convert energy between thermal and electrical aspects, which show the feasibility to improve the performance of solar cells via heat management and light harvesting. Polymer–inorganic thermoelectric nanocomposites consisting of inorganic nanomaterials and functional organic polymers represent one kind of advanced hybrid nanomaterials with tunable optical and electrical characteristics and fascinating interfacial and surface chemistry. During the past decades, they have attracted extensive research interest due to their diverse composition, easy synthesis, and large surface area. Such advanced nanomaterials not only inherit low thermal conductivity from polymers and high Seebeck coefficient, and high electrical conductivity from inorganic materials, but also benefit from the additional interface between each component. In this review, we provide an overview of interfacial chemistry engineering and electrical feature of various polymer–inorganic thermoelectric hybrid nanomaterials, including synthetic methods, properties, and applications in thermoelectric devices. In addition, the prospect and challenges of polymer–inorganic nanocomposites are discussed in the field of thermoelectric energy. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8107684/ /pubmed/33981678 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.677821 Text en Copyright © 2021 Zhang, Pan, Song, Guo, Zhao, Chen, Zhang, Jin, Zhang, Chen and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zhang, Xiaoyan
Pan, Shuang
Song, Huanhuan
Guo, Wengai
Zhao, Shiqiang
Chen, Guang
Zhang, Qingcheng
Jin, Huile
Zhang, Lijie
Chen, Yihuang
Wang, Shun
Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices
title Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices
title_full Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices
title_fullStr Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices
title_full_unstemmed Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices
title_short Polymer–Inorganic Thermoelectric Nanomaterials: Electrical Properties, Interfacial Chemistry Engineering, and Devices
title_sort polymer–inorganic thermoelectric nanomaterials: electrical properties, interfacial chemistry engineering, and devices
topic Chemistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8107684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33981678
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.677821
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