Effect of interfacial properties on polymer-nanocrystal thermoelectric transport

Nelson E Coates; Shannon K Yee; Bryan McCulloch; Kevin C See; Arun Majumdar; Rachel A Segalman; Jeffrey J Urban

doi:10.1002/adma.201203915

Effect of interfacial properties on polymer-nanocrystal thermoelectric transport

Adv Mater. 2013 Mar 20;25(11):1629-33. doi: 10.1002/adma.201203915. Epub 2013 Jan 28.

Authors

Nelson E Coates¹, Shannon K Yee, Bryan McCulloch, Kevin C See, Arun Majumdar, Rachel A Segalman, Jeffrey J Urban

Affiliation

¹ Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.

PMID: 23355231
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201203915

Abstract

The electrical behavior of a conducting-polymer/inorganic-nanowire composite is explained with a model in which carrier transport occurs predominantly through a highly conductive volume of polymer that exists at the polymer-nanowire interface. This result highlights the importance of controlling nanoscale interfaces for thermoelectric materials, and provides a general route for improving carrier transport in organic/inorganic composites.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.