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ZnO flower/PEDOT:PSS thermoelectric composite films

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ZnO flower/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) composite films were prepared by spin-coating dimethyl sulfoxide doped PEDOT:PSS on the ZnO flowers grown on glass substrate. The thermoelectric properties of the ZnO flower/PEDOT:PSS composite films were measured at room temperature. As the number of spin coated PEDOT:PSS layer increased, the electrical conductivity of the ZnO flower/PEDOT:PSS composite films increases dramatically from 1-layer (177.3 S/m) to 4-layer (910.4 S/m), however, all the composite films have almost the same Seebeck coefficient (~20–22 μV/K). A maximum power factor of ~0.4 μWm−1 K−2 at room temperature was obtained from the composite film with 4-layer PEDOT:PSS.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61504081), the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Young Eastern Scholar Program) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning (QD2015039).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, 100 Haiquan Road, Shanghai, 201418, China

    Yong Du & Jiayue Xu

  2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 4800 Caoan Road, Shanghai, 201804, China

    Kefeng Cai

  3. CSIRO Manufacturing, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, VIC, 3169, Australia

    Shirley Z. Shen & Weidong Yang

  4. Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3216, Australia

    Tong Lin

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Du, Y., Cai, K., Shen, S.Z. et al. ZnO flower/PEDOT:PSS thermoelectric composite films. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 27, 10289–10293 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-016-5111-3

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