Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

doi:10.1002/adma.201704386

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Title: Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

Conversion of waste heat to voltage has the potential to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of a number of critical energy sectors, such as the transportation and electricity-generation sectors, and manufacturing processes. Thermal energy is also an abundant low-flux source that can be harnessed to power portable/wearable electronic devices and critical components in remote off-grid locations. As such, a number of different inorganic and organic materials are being explored for their potential in thermoelectric-energy-harvesting devices. Carbon-based thermoelectric materials are particularly attractive due to their use of nontoxic, abundant source-materials, their amenability to high-throughput solution-phase fabrication routes, and the high specific energy (i.e., W g-1) enabled by their low mass. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) represent a unique 1D carbon allotrope with structural, electrical, and thermal properties that enable efficient thermoelectric-energy conversion. Here, the progress made toward understanding the fundamental thermoelectric properties of SWCNTs, nanotube-based composites, and thermoelectric devices prepared from these materials is reviewed in detail. This progress illuminates the tremendous potential that carbon-nanotube-based materials and composites have for producing high-performance next-generation devices for thermoelectric-energy harvesting.

Authors:

Blackburn, Jeffrey L. ^[1] ; Ferguson, Andrew J. ^[1] ; Cho, Chungyeon ^[2] ; Grunlan, Jaime C. ^[2]

National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-01-22

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5900-70041
Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648; TRN: US1801347

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Advanced Materials

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 30; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648

Publisher:: Wiley

Research Org:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), NREL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; carbon nanotubes; composite materials; energy harvesting; organic electronics; thermoelectrics

OSTI Identifier:: 1419418

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1417708


                    Blackburn, Jeffrey L., Ferguson, Andrew J., Cho, Chungyeon, and Grunlan, Jaime C.. Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices.  United States: N. p.,  
        Web.  doi:10.1002/adma.201704386.

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                    Blackburn, Jeffrey L., Ferguson, Andrew J., Cho, Chungyeon, & Grunlan, Jaime C.. Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices.  United States.  doi:10.1002/adma.201704386.

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                    Blackburn, Jeffrey L., Ferguson, Andrew J., Cho, Chungyeon, and Grunlan, Jaime C.. 2018.  
        "Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices".  United States.  
        doi:10.1002/adma.201704386.

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  title        = {Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices},

  author       = {Blackburn, Jeffrey L. and Ferguson, Andrew J. and Cho, Chungyeon and Grunlan, Jaime C.},

  abstractNote = {Conversion of waste heat to voltage has the potential to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of a number of critical energy sectors, such as the transportation and electricity-generation sectors, and manufacturing processes. Thermal energy is also an abundant low-flux source that can be harnessed to power portable/wearable electronic devices and critical components in remote off-grid locations. As such, a number of different inorganic and organic materials are being explored for their potential in thermoelectric-energy-harvesting devices. Carbon-based thermoelectric materials are particularly attractive due to their use of nontoxic, abundant source-materials, their amenability to high-throughput solution-phase fabrication routes, and the high specific energy (i.e., W g-1) enabled by their low mass. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) represent a unique 1D carbon allotrope with structural, electrical, and thermal properties that enable efficient thermoelectric-energy conversion. Here, the progress made toward understanding the fundamental thermoelectric properties of SWCNTs, nanotube-based composites, and thermoelectric devices prepared from these materials is reviewed in detail. This progress illuminates the tremendous potential that carbon-nanotube-based materials and composites have for producing high-performance next-generation devices for thermoelectric-energy harvesting.},

  doi          = {10.1002/adma.201704386},

  journal      = {Advanced Materials},

  number       = 11,

  volume       = 30,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {1}

}

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