{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Hou Y"],"funding":["Project of Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology, Innovation Cooperation Zone","National Natural Science Foundation of China","Innovation and Technology Commission"],"pagination":["e2309052"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10933682"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["11(10)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Thermoelectric devices (TEDs) show great potential for waste heat energy recycling and sensing. However, existing TEDs cannot be self-adapted to the complex quadratic surface, leading to significant heat loss and restricting their working scenario. Here, surface-conformable origami-TEDs (o-TEGs) are developed through programmable crease-designed origami substrates and the screen-printing TE legs. Compared with \"π\" structured TEDs, the origami design (with heat conductive materials) changed the heat-transferring direction of the laminated TE legs, resulting in an enhancement in enlarging ΔT/T<sub>Hot</sub> and V<sub>out</sub> by 5.02 and 3.51 times. Four o-TEDs with different creases designs are fabricated to verify the heat recycling ability on plane and central quadratic surfaces. Demonstrating a high V<sub>out</sub> density (up to 0.98 <sup>-2</sup> at ΔT of 50 K) and good surface conformability, o-TEDs are further used in thermal touch panels attached to multiple surfaces, allowing information to be wirelessly transferred on a remote display via finger-writing."],"journal":["Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)"],"pubmed_title":["Programmable and Surface-Conformable Origami Design for Thermoelectric Devices."],"pmcid":["PMC10933682"],"funding_grant_id":["HZQB-KCZYB-2020083","ITS‐192‐20FP","ITS-192-20FP","12122408"],"pubmed_authors":["Li Y","Li Z","Li C","Guo H","Zhang X","Hou Y","Wang Z","Yu H"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Programmable and Surface-Conformable Origami Design for Thermoelectric Devices.","description":"Thermoelectric devices (TEDs) show great potential for waste heat energy recycling and sensing. However, existing TEDs cannot be self-adapted to the complex quadratic surface, leading to significant heat loss and restricting their working scenario. Here, surface-conformable origami-TEDs (o-TEGs) are developed through programmable crease-designed origami substrates and the screen-printing TE legs. Compared with \"π\" structured TEDs, the origami design (with heat conductive materials) changed the heat-transferring direction of the laminated TE legs, resulting in an enhancement in enlarging ΔT/T<sub>Hot</sub> and V<sub>out</sub> by 5.02 and 3.51 times. Four o-TEDs with different creases designs are fabricated to verify the heat recycling ability on plane and central quadratic surfaces. Demonstrating a high V<sub>out</sub> density (up to 0.98 <sup>-2</sup> at ΔT of 50 K) and good surface conformability, o-TEDs are further used in thermal touch panels attached to multiple surfaces, allowing information to be wirelessly transferred on a remote display via finger-writing.","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Mar","modification":"2026-06-28T03:12:41.019Z","creation":"2025-04-04T12:58:38.786Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10933682","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38168897"],"doi":["10.1002/advs.202309052"]}}