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Flexible thermoelectric fabrics based on self-assembled tellurium nanorods with a large power factor
Chaochao Dun1, Corey A Hewitt, Huihui Huang
1Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. huangh@wfu.edu carroldl@wfu.edu.
Abstract:
Highly-flexible thermoelectric fabrics were fabricated based on a layered structure, composed of a thin active layer of self-assembled tellurium nanorods and a substrate layer of polyvinylidene fluoride. The resulting thermoelectric fabrics show a high room temperature power factor of 45.8 μW m(-1) K(-2), which opens a new avenue to fabricate highly-flexible sustainable energy sources.
