N-type organic thermoelectrics: demonstration of ZT > 0.3

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 5694 - 9
• Main Authors: Liu, Jian, van der Zee, Bas, Alessandri, Riccardo, Sami, Selim, Dong, Jingjin, Nugraha, Mohamad I., Barker, Alex J., Rousseva, Sylvia, Qiu, Li, Qiu, Xinkai, Klasen, Nathalie, Chiechi, Ryan C., Baran, Derya, Caironi, Mario, Anthopoulos, Thomas D., Portale, Giuseppe, Havenith, Remco W. A., Marrink, Siewert J., Hummelen, Jan C., Koster, L. Jan Anton
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 10.11.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 639/301/1005/1007; 639/301/299/2736; 639/4077/4107; Annealing; Chains; Crystals; Electrical conductivity; Electrical resistivity; Fabrication; Figure of merit; Fullerenes; Heat conductivity; Humanities and Social Sciences; Mechanical properties; Miscibility; multidisciplinary; Organic materials; Organic semiconductors; Phonons; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Semiconductors; Temperature; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectric materials

The ‘phonon-glass electron-crystal’ concept has triggered most of the progress that has been achieved in inorganic thermoelectrics in the past two decades. Organic thermoelectric materials, unlike their inorganic counterparts, exhibit molecular diversity, flexible mechanical properties and easy fabr...