Polymer morphology and interfacial charge transfer dominate over energy-dependent scattering in organic-inorganic thermoelectrics

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2018-12-17

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Kumar, Pawan
Zaia, Edmond W.
Yıldırım, Erol
Repaka, D. V. Maheswar
Yang, Shuo-Wang
Urban, Jeffrey J.
Hippalgaonkar, Kedar

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Hybrid (organic-inorganic) materials have emerged as a promising class of thermoelectric materials, achieving power factors (S-2 sigma) exceeding those of either constituent. The mechanism of this enhancement is still under debate, and pinpointing the underlying physics has proven difficult. In this work, we combine transport measurements with theoretical simulations and first principles calculations on a prototypical PEDOT:PSS-Te(Cu-x) nanowire hybrid material system to understand the effect of templating and charge redistribution on the thermoelectric performance. Further, we apply the recently developed Kang-Snyder charge transport model to show that scattering of holes in the hybrid system, defined by the energy-dependent scattering parameter, remains the same as in the host polymer matrix; performance is instead dictated by polymer morphology manifested in an energy-independent transport coefficient. We build upon this language to explain thermoelectric behavior in a variety of PEDOT and P3HT based hybrids acting as a guide for future work in multiphase materials.

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, General Physics and Astronomy, General Chemistry

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48180

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07435-z

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P. Kumar et al., “Polymer morphology and interfacial charge transfer dominate over energy-dependent scattering in organic-inorganic thermoelectrics,” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, pp. 0–0, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48180.