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- Title
Combination of nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes for organic hybrid thermoelectrics.
- Authors
Toshima, Naoki; Shiraishi, Yukihide
- Abstract
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are usually very expensive, but inexpensive CNTs have been mass-produced by a super-growth (SG) method. The SG-CNTs, however, have many defects resulting in a low conductivity, which is a disadvantage of the SG-CNTs. We discovered that even the defective SG-CNTs can provide a good thermoelectric performance by forming ternary hybrid films made of the SG-CNTs, nanoparticles (NPs) of a conducting polymer complex, poly(nickel 1,1,2,2-ethenetetrathiolate) (PETT) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC). The good thermoelectric performance of the ternary film (PETT-NP/SG-CNT/PVC) was possibly attributed to the defect repair effect in addition to the bridging effect of the PETT-NPs among the CNTs. In order to confirm this new concept, we attempted the deposition of metal NPs at the defects of the SG-CNTs. We initially made a physical mixture of palladium (Pd) NPs and the SG-CNTs in dispersions to cover the SG-CNT defects with the Pd-NPs. The obtained films showed only a slight improvement in electrical conductivity. Chemical reduction of the Pd ions in the dispersion of the SG-CNTs, on the other hand, provided hybrids with an enhanced electrical conductivity, thus, use as thermoelectric materials. The thermoelectric figure-of-merit was estimated to be ∼0.3, which is a relatively high value for organic hybrid materials.
- Subjects
CARBON nanotubes; NANOPARTICLES; ELECTRIC conductivity; CONDUCTING polymers; TERNARY forms; THERMOELECTRIC materials; HYBRID solar cells; THERMOELECTRIC generators
- Publication
Pure & Applied Chemistry, 2020, Vol 92, Issue 6, p967
- ISSN
0033-4545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/pac-2019-1109