| 초록 |
Conjugated polymers and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted great attention as key materials for realizing organic and soft electronics because of their mechanical flexibility and compatibility with low-temperature solution processes. Recently, they have been emerged as a new class of thermoelectric (TE) materials, opening new avenues for harvesting thermal energy by inexpensive and scalable routes. Here, I present 3 different approaches to improve the TE and mechanical properties of organic and carbon-based TE materials: 1) molecular doping of conjugated polymers via simple solution mixing, 2) efficient debundling and doping of few-walled CNTs, and 3) nanostructuring and molecular doping of conjugated polymers in a thermoplastic elastomer matrix. In the first two parts, I will focus on how to improve the TE properties of the materials and the performance of flexible TE generators. At the end, a novel strategy will be introduced to realize self-healable and stretchable TE materials. |
