Chemical doping of organic semiconductors for thermoelectric applications

W Zhao, J Ding, Y Zou, C Di, D Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Doping is essential to manipulate the electrical performance of both thermoelectric (TE)
materials and organic semiconductors (OSCs). Although organic thermoelectric (OTE) …

Computational approaches for organic semiconductors: from chemical and physical understanding to predicting new materials

V Bhat, CP Callaway, C Risko - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
While a complete understanding of organic semiconductor (OSC) design principles remains
elusive, computational methods─ ranging from techniques based in classical and quantum …

Solution processed organic thermoelectrics: towards flexible thermoelectric modules

Y Chen, Y Zhao, Z Liang - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductor materials have advantages of low cost, light weight, mechanical
flexibility and low-temperature solution processability over large areas, enabling the …

Conjugated-backbone effect of organic small molecules for n-type thermoelectric materials with ZT over 0.2

D Huang, H Yao, Y Cui, Y Zou, F Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conjugated backbones play a fundamental role in determining the electronic properties of
organic semiconductors. On the basis of two solution-processable dihydropyrrolo [3, 4-c] …

N‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics of Donor–Acceptor Copolymers: Improved Power Factor by Molecular Tailoring of the Density of States

J Liu, G Ye, B Zee, J Dong, X Qiu, Y Liu… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
It is demonstrated that the n‐type thermoelectric performance of donor–acceptor (D–A)
copolymers can be enhanced by a factor of> 1000 by tailoring the density of states (DOS) …

Soft organic thermoelectric materials: Principles, current state of the art and applications

Y Zhang, W Wang, F Zhang, K Dai, C Li, Y Fan, G Chen… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The enormous demand for waste heat utilization and burgeoning eco‐friendly wearable
materials has triggered huge interest in the development of thermoelectric materials that can …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer-based thermoelectric materials: A review of power factor improving strategies

J Li, AB Huckleby, M Zhang - Journal of Materiomics, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric (TE) materials are receiving increasing attention due to their ability to directly
converting heat to electricity. They are used to harvest electrical energy from the wasted heat …

Unravelling doping effects on PEDOT at the molecular level: from geometry to thermoelectric transport properties

W Shi, T Zhao, J Xi, D Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Tuning carrier concentration via chemical doping is the most successful strategy to optimize
the thermoelectric figure of merit. Nevertheless, how the dopants affect charge transport is …

Development of perovskite-type materials for thermoelectric application

T Wu, P Gao - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Oxide perovskite materials have a long history of being investigated for thermoelectric
applications. Compared to the state-of-the-art tin and lead chalcogenides, these perovskite …

Exploring thermoelectric materials from high mobility organic semiconductors

F Zhang, C Di - Chemistry of Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Organic thermoelectric (OTE) materials have attracted intensive attention because of their
promising applications in flexible electricity generators and ultrathin solid cooling elements …