Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Exceptional thermoelectric properties of flexible organic−inorganic hybrids with monodispersed and periodic nanophase

  • Liming Wang,
  • Zimeng Zhang,
  • Yuchen Liu,
  • Biran Wang,
  • Lei Fang,
  • Jingjing Qiu,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Shiren Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06251-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The potential of flexible organic/inorganic hybrids for thermoelectrics is limited by the inability to control their microstructure. Here, the authors demonstrate polymer-nanoparticle hybrids with a monodispersed, periodic nanophase that shows high thermoelectric performance at room temperature.