• 文献标题:   Polymeric Thermoelectric Composites by Polypyrrole and Cheap Reduced Graphene Oxide in Towel-Gourd Sponge Fibers
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XIANG M, YANG Z, CHEN JX, ZHOU SL, WEI WJ, DONG S
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  • 出版物名称:   ACS OMEGA
  • ISSN:   2470-1343
  • 通讯作者地址:   Changzhou Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsomega.0c04356
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The thermoelectric (TE) materials can transform thermal energy into electrical energy, and polymer TE composites have attracted increasing interest for flexible semiconductors. However, polymer composites suffer from low TE performances due to the low electroconductibility (sigma). Herein, grafted conducting networks were fabricated by grafting polypyrrole (PPy) onto the cheap graphene of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) in the bundled micro-tunnel of towel-gourd sponge (TS) fibers. Afterward, the TS powders containing grafted conducting networks were cured by the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The PDMS/TS-rGO-PPy composites exhibited an sigma of 74 S/m, thermal conductivity of 0.249 Wm(-1).K-1, Seebeck coefficient of 84.2 mu V/K, and thermoelectric figure of merit of 5.427 X 10(-4) with 10.0 wt % filler loading. Moreover, dynamic TE properties of our composites under tensile loading were investigated. The results show that the grafted conducting network maintained its integrity by interconnection of PPy between adjacent rGO nano-layers.