Oxidation Control to Augment Interfacial Charge Transport in Te-P3HT Hybrid Materials for High Thermoelectric Performance.

ABSTRACT: Organic-inorganic hybrid thermoelectric (TE) materials have attracted tremendous interest for harvesting waste heat energy. Due to their mechanical flexibility, inorganic-organic hybrid TE materials are considered to be promising candidates for flexible energy harvesting devices. In this work, enhanced TE properties of Tellurium (Te) nanowires (NWs)- poly (3-hexylthiophene-2, 5-diyl) (P3HT) hybrid materials are reported by improving the charge transport at interfacial layer mediated via controlled oxidation. A power factor of ≈9.8 µW (mK²)^-1 is obtained at room temperature for oxidized P3HT-TeNWs hybrid materials, which increases to ≈64.8 µW (mK²)^-1 upon control of TeNWs oxidation. This value is sevenfold higher compared to P3HT-TeNWs-based hybri

SUBMITTER: Shah SZH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11425214 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature