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Book SynopsisOrganic Thermoelectrics Enables readers to understand the development and applications of organic thermoelectric conversion, including fundamentals and experimental breakthroughs
Organic Thermoelectrics: From Materials to Devices introduces organic thermoelectric materials to devices in a systematic manner, covering the development of organic thermoelectric materials, followed by a discussion on the fundamental mechanism of thermoelectric conversion, design strategy, and advances in different materials, device fabrication, and characterizations of thermoelectric parameters.
In Organic Thermoelectrics: From Materials to Devices, readers can expect to find detailed information on:
- Fundamentals of thermoelectric (TE) conversion, development of organic thermoelectric (OTE) fields and mechanisms, and basic physical processes in carrier transport and thermal transport for TE conversion
- Recent development and key strategies to develop p-type, n-type, and composite/hybrid OTE materials
- Basic mechanisms, fundamental requirements, and recent advances of doping for OTE applications, plus geometries and construction methods of OTE devices
- Theoretical and experimental advances in single molecular TE devices, together with the recent development in related detection methods
Powered by worldwide innovative research results in the past ten years and strongly supported by many collaborators, Organic Thermoelectrics is a comprehensive reference on the subject and is invaluable for scientists and students in chemistry, materials, and engineering.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction of organic thermoelectric materials and devices
1.1 Brief history of organic thermoelectrics materials
1.2 Thermoelectric effects
1.3 Thermoelectric parameters
1.4 Challenges and perspectives of OTE materials
Chapter 2. Mechanism and theory of organic thermoelectric materials
2.1 Phenomenological approach to thermoelectrics
2.2 Charge transport mechanism
2.3 Phonon scattering and electron-phonon coupling
2.4 Trade-off Relationship in organic thermoelectric materials
2.5 Temperature dependent thermoelectric properties
Chapter 3. P-type organic thermoelectric materials
3.1 Material category
3.2 Conducting polymers
3.3 Doped semiconductors
3.4 Molecular design strategy
Chapter 4. N-type organic thermoelectric materials
4.1 Material category
4.2 Conducting polymers
4.3 Doped semiconductors
4.4 Molecular design strategy
Chapter 5. Composite and hybrid thermoelectric materials
5.1 Material category
5.2 Organic-inorganic hybrid materials
5.3 Organic-organic composite materials
5.4 Energy filtering effect
Chapter 6. Ionic thermoelectric materials and devices
6.1 Introduction of Soret effect
6.2 Modeling and devices
6.3 Optimization of ion thermoelectric performance
6.4 Perspectives
Chapter 7. Doping engineering of organic thermoelectric materials
7.1 Doping method
7.2 Doping mechanism
7.3 Strategies of chemical doping
7.5 Conclusions
Chapter 8. Organic thermoelectric devices
8.1 Device geometry
8.2 Thermoelectric generator and refrigerators
8.3 Multifunctional sensors and detectors
Chapter 9. Single molecular thermoelectric devices
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Single molecular Seebeck effect
9.3 Single molecular Peltier effect
9.4 Perspectives
Chapter 10. Measurement techniques of thermoelectric performance
10.1 Measurement of electrical conductivity
10.2 Measurement of Seebeck coefficient
10.3 Measurement of thermal conductivity
10.4 Determination of carrier concentration and density-of-states
10.5 Simultaneous measurement of key parameters
