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Systematic conversion of single walled carbon nanotubes into n-type thermoelectric materials by molecular dopants.

ABSTRACT: Thermoelectrics is a challenging issue for modern and future energy conversion and recovery technology. Carbon nanotubes are promising active thermoelectic materials owing to their narrow bandgap energy and high charge carrier mobility, and they can be integrated into flexible thermoelectrics that can recover any waste heat. We here report air-stable n-type single walled carbon nanotubes with a variety of weak electron donors in the range of HOMO level between ca. -4.4 eV and ca. -5.6 eV, in which partial uphill electron injection from the dopant to the conduction band of single walled carbon nanotubes is dominant. We display flexible films of the doped single walled carbon nanotubes possessing significantly large thermoelectric effect, which is applicable to flexible ambient thermoelectric modules.

SUBMITTER: Nonoguchi Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3840380 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

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Systematic conversion of single walled carbon nanotubes into n-type thermoelectric materials by molecular dopants.

Nonoguchi Yoshiyuki Y Ohashi Kenji K Kanazawa Rui R Ashiba Koji K Hata Kenji K Nakagawa Tetsuya T Adachi Chihaya C Tanase Tomoaki T Kawai Tsuyoshi T

Scientific reports 20131126

Thermoelectrics is a challenging issue for modern and future energy conversion and recovery technology. Carbon nanotubes are promising active thermoelectic materials owing to their narrow bandgap energy and high charge carrier mobility, and they can be integrated into flexible thermoelectrics that can recover any waste heat. We here report air-stable n-type single walled carbon nanotubes with a variety of weak electron donors in the range of HOMO level between ca. -4.4 eV and ca. -5.6 eV, in whi ...[more]

PMID: 24276090

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