Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

High-performance shape-engineerable thermoelectric painting

  • Sung Hoon Park,
  • Seungki Jo,
  • Beomjin Kwon,
  • Fredrick Kim,
  • Hyeong Woo Ban,
  • Ji Eun Lee,
  • Da Hwi Gu,
  • Se Hwa Lee,
  • Younghun Hwang,
  • Jin-Sang Kim,
  • Dow-Bin Hyun,
  • Sukbin Lee,
  • Kyoung Jin Choi,
  • Wook Jo,
  • Jae Sung Son

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13403
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Thermoelectric devices are often rigid and do not adapt conformally to surfaces. Here, Park et al. prepare a Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric paint, containing a Sb2Te3chalcogenidometalate additive, that can be paint-brushed onto curved surfaces and form thermoelectric modules with good efficiencies.