Innovative Thermoelectric Materials

Polymer, Nanostructure and Composite Thermoelectrics

Power generation from environmentally friendly sources has led to surging interest in thermoelectrics. There has been a move toward alternative thermoelectric materials with enhanced performance through materials and structures that utilize common and safer elements and alternative mechanistic approaches while increasing processing latitude and decreasing cost. This wide-ranging volume examines this progress and future prospects with the new technologies, ease of processing and cost as major considerations, and will benefit active researchers, students and others interested in cutting-edge work in thermoelectric materials.

Innovative Thermoelectric Materials incorporates the contributions of a group of recognized experts in thermoelectric materials, many of whom were the first to introduce various materials systems into thermoelectric systems. The perspectives brought to this evolving subject will provide important insights on which those developing the field can build, and will inspire new research directions for the future.

Contents:

• Innovative Thermoelectric Materials (Theodore O Poehler and Howard E Katz [Johns Hopkins University, USA])
• Solution Processable Molecular and Polymer Semiconductors for Thermoelectrics (Ruth Schlitz, Anne Glaudell and Michael Chabinyc [UC Santa Barbara, USA])
• Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials (Sangyeop Lee and Gang Chen [MIT, USA])
• New Design Rules for Polymer-Based Thermoelectric Nanocomposites (Jeffrey J Urban and Nelson E Coates [LBNL, USA])
• Role of Dopants in Defining Carrier Densities, Energetics, and Transport in Semiconducting Polymers (Gun-Ho Kim and Kevin P Pipe [University of Michigan, USA])
• Thermoelectric Polymer–Inorganic Composites (Robert M Ireland and Howard E Katz [Johns Hopkins University, USA])
• Modeling Thermoelectric Materials (Greg Walker [Vanderbilt University, USA])
• Phase-Transition-Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Copper Selenide (David R Brown and G Jeffrey Snyder [Caltech, USA])

Readership: Researchers and post-graduate students in the field of thermoelectrics.
Key Features:

• Presents a highly authoritative picture of the field with contemporary information by prominent contributors to the field
• First book that highlights the potential of polymers in thermoelectrics
• Substantial theoretical analysis included to justify the experimental approaches reported and proposed at a level of detail that is both comprehensive and accessible