Flexible Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 427
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy devices; flexible thermoelectric devices; thermal transport; thermal properties measurement technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thermoelectric phenomena, which directly convert heat energy into electricity, have the potential to be used commercially for waste-heat harvesting systems or alternative cooling systems. Recently, thermoelectric devices have attracted attention as alternative power sources of wearable or wireless devices and local cooling systems for the human body or hot spots, and have the advantages of stability, quietness, and reliability due to a lack of moving parts. Therefore, these thermoelectric materials and devices can be used to explore future applications with flexibility and stretchability.
Flexible thermoelectric materials and devices consist of inorganic or organic materials. Enhancing the flexibility of materials and devices with inorganic materials is an approach that can be used to obtain flexible thermoelectric devices. The low performance of organic materials and carbon-based materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, in comparison to that of inorganic materials, is a remaining issue. This Special Issue on “Flexible Thermoelectric Materials and Devices” is dedicated to novel approaches to thermoelectric materials and devices with flexibility and stretchability. We are soliciting original experimental and theoretical approaches associated with flexible inorganic or organic materials. This Special Issue covers a broad range of fundamental concepts, as well as experimental and theoretical studies related to flexibility and thermoelectricity and applications with new ideas for devices structures and new approaches for high-performance devices.
We kindly invite you to submit your research contributions in the form of research articles (full papers), communications, or reviews to this Special Issue.
Dr. Jungwon Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flexible thermoelectric materials
- flexible thermoelectric devices
- stretchable thermoelectric materials
- stretchable thermoelectric devices
- inorganic thermoelectric
- organic thermoelectric
- inorganic/organic thermoelectric
