TY - JOUR
T1 - Highly Stretchable and Air-Stable PEDOT:PSS/Ionic Liquid Composites for Efficient Organic Thermoelectrics
AU - Kee, Seyoung
AU - Kim, Hyunho
AU - Paleti, Sri Harish Kumar
AU - El Labban, Abdulrahman
AU - Neophytou, Marios
AU - Emwas, Abdul-Hamid M.
AU - Alshareef, Husam N.
AU - Baran, Derya
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-02-19
Acknowledgements: D.B. acknowledges KAUST Solar Center Competitive Fund (CCF) for financial support. Figure 4a was created by Ivan Gromicho, Scientific Illustrator at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
PY - 2019/4/9
Y1 - 2019/4/9
N2 - Thermoelectric (TE) generators that are capable of providing sustainable energy conversion under dynamic mechanical stresses have been explored for realizing autonomous wearable electronics. However, finding extremely deformable, efficient as well as air-stable TE materials is still a major challenge. Here, we report highly stretchable and efficient organic TE materials from aqueous composites of PEDOT:PSS and ionic liquids (ILs). In this composite, ILs simultaneously enhance Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity of PEDOT:PSS (up to 35 μV K-1 and 538 S cm-1, respectively) by controlling its oxidation level and nanostructure. Moreover, the resulting fibrous structure with IL-assisted soft domains leads to outstanding mechanical deformability and durability, enabling that the PEDOT:PSS/IL films simply coated on elastomeric substrates maintain the TE functionality under tensile strain (ε) up to 70% and repetitive stretching cycles with 30% ε without severe degradation in TE performance. Furthermore, we also demonstrate the long-term TE stability of PEDOT:PSS/IL composites maintaining > 80% of the initial performance after 10 days in ambient conditions. Our finding provides the potential of this novel composite as a stretchable and air-stable organic TE material.
AB - Thermoelectric (TE) generators that are capable of providing sustainable energy conversion under dynamic mechanical stresses have been explored for realizing autonomous wearable electronics. However, finding extremely deformable, efficient as well as air-stable TE materials is still a major challenge. Here, we report highly stretchable and efficient organic TE materials from aqueous composites of PEDOT:PSS and ionic liquids (ILs). In this composite, ILs simultaneously enhance Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity of PEDOT:PSS (up to 35 μV K-1 and 538 S cm-1, respectively) by controlling its oxidation level and nanostructure. Moreover, the resulting fibrous structure with IL-assisted soft domains leads to outstanding mechanical deformability and durability, enabling that the PEDOT:PSS/IL films simply coated on elastomeric substrates maintain the TE functionality under tensile strain (ε) up to 70% and repetitive stretching cycles with 30% ε without severe degradation in TE performance. Furthermore, we also demonstrate the long-term TE stability of PEDOT:PSS/IL composites maintaining > 80% of the initial performance after 10 days in ambient conditions. Our finding provides the potential of this novel composite as a stretchable and air-stable organic TE material.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/631885
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00819
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064992072&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00819
DO - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00819
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064992072
VL - 31
SP - 3519
EP - 3526
JO - Chemistry of Materials
JF - Chemistry of Materials
SN - 0897-4756
IS - 9
ER -