Varying the ionic functionalities of conjugated polyelectrolytes leads to both p- and n-type carbon nanotube composites for flexible thermoelectrics

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 2341-2346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Kang Mai ◽  
Boris Russ ◽  
Stephanie L. Fronk ◽  
Nan Hu ◽  
Mary B. Chan-Park ◽  
...  

Selective doping of single-walled carbon nanotubes can be achieved by varying pendant ionic functionalities of conjugated polyelectrolytes.

Author(s):  
Cristian Andrei Gal ◽  
Laura Edit Barabas ◽  
Judith Hajnal Bartha-Vari ◽  
Madalina Elena Moisa ◽  
Diana Balogh-Weiser ◽  
...  

An efficient nanobioconjugate of lipase B from Candida antarctica was prepared by the covalent binding on carboxy-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes and tested in batch and flow mode for the enzymatic...


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (20) ◽  
pp. 11186-11190 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Jintoku ◽  
Y. Matsuzawa ◽  
M. Yoshida

The light-induced switching of the optical and electrical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes hybrid films with photoresponsive dispersant.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 7592-7594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuya Miyake ◽  
Alejandro López-Moreno ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Hai-Jun Xu ◽  
Nicolas Desbois ◽  
...  

Flexible nanotweezers including Co(ii) dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes in methanol.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuxun Wan ◽  
Zhongming Chen ◽  
Liping Hao ◽  
Shichao Wang ◽  
Benzhang Li ◽  
...  

Abstract We present a method of constructing composites composed of conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to obtain a high-performing flexible thermoelectric generator. In this approach, three kinds of polymers, namely, poly[(1,4-(2,5-didodecyloxybenzene)-alt-2,5-thiophene] (P1), poly[(1,4-(2,5-bis-sodium butoxysulfonate-phenylene)-alt-2,5-thiophene] (P2), and poly[(1,4-(2,5-bis-acid butoxysulfonic-phenylene)-alt-2,5-thiophene] (P3) are designed, synthesized and complexed with SWCNTs as thermoelectric composites. The electrical conductivities of CPEs/SWCNTs (P2/SWCNTs, and P3/SWCNTs) nanocomposites are much higher than those of non-CPEs/SWCNTs (P1/SWCNTs) nanocomposites. Among them, the electrical conductivity of P2/SWCNTs with a ratio of 1:4 reaches 3686 S cm-1, which is 12.4 times that of P1/SWCNTs at the same SWCNT mass ratio. Moreover, CPEs/SWCNTs composites (P2/SWCNTs) display remarkably improved thermoelectric properties with the highest power factor (PF) of 163 μW m-1 K-2. In addition, a thermoelectric generator is fabricated with P2/SWCNTs composite films, and the output power and power density of this generator reach 1.37 μW and 1.4 W m-2 (cross-section) at ΔT=70 K. This result is over three times that of the thermoelectric generator composed of non-CPEs/SWCNTs composite films (P1/SWCNTs, 0.37 μW). The remarkably improved electrical conductivities and thermoelectric properties of the CPEs/SWCNTs composites (P2/SWCNTs) are attributed to the enhanced interaction. This method for constructing CPEs/SWCNTs composites can be applied to produce thermoelectric materials and devices.


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (39) ◽  
pp. 18665-18671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria S. Kopylova ◽  
Fedor S. Fedorov ◽  
Alena A. Alekseeva ◽  
Evgenia P. Gilshteyn ◽  
Alexey P. Tsapenko ◽  
...  

A holey carbon nanotube network is designed to improve the performance of bolometers. The material possesses a temperature coefficient of resistance up to −2.8% K−1.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1496-1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Tahouneh

In the present work, by considering the agglomeration effect of single-walled carbon nanotubes, free vibration characteristics of functionally graded nanocomposite sandwich sectorial plates are presented. The volume fractions of randomly oriented agglomerated single-walled carbon nanotubes are assumed to be graded in the thickness direction. To determine the effect of carbon nanotube agglomeration on the elastic properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced composites, a two-parameter micromechanical model of agglomeration is employed. In this research work, an equivalent continuum model based on the Eshelby–Mori–Tanaka approach is considered to estimate the effective constitutive law of the elastic isotropic medium (matrix) with oriented straight carbon nanotubes. The two-dimensional generalized differential quadrature method as an efficient and accurate numerical tool is used to discretize the equations of motion and to implement the various boundary conditions. The proposed sectorial plates are simply supported at radial edges, while all possible combinations of free, simply supported, and clamped boundary conditions are applied to the other two circular edges. The benefit of using the considered power-law distribution is to illustrate and present useful results arising from symmetric and asymmetric profiles. The effects of agglomeration, geometrical, and material parameters together with the boundary conditions on the frequency parameters of the sandwich functionally graded nanocomposite plates are investigated. It is shown that the natural frequencies of structure are seriously affected by the influence of carbon nanotubes agglomeration. This study serves as a benchmark for assessing the validity of numerical methods or two-dimensional theories used to analyze the sandwich sectorial plates.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1158-1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stepan A. Romanov ◽  
Ali E. Aliev ◽  
Boris V. Fine ◽  
Anton S. Anisimov ◽  
Albert G. Nasibulin

We present the state-of-the-art performance of air-coupled thermophones made of thin, freestanding films of randomly oriented single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs).


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (23) ◽  
pp. 1950258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danhui Zhang ◽  
Houbo Yang ◽  
Zhongkui Liu ◽  
Anmin Liu

Polynylon66, as a kind of important engineering plastics, is widely used in various fields. In this work, we studied the interfacial interactions between polynylon66 and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The results showed that the polynylon66 could interact with the SWCNTs and the mechanism of interfacial interaction between polynylon66 and SWCNTs was also discussed. Furthermore, the morphology of polynylon66 adsorbed to the surface of SWCNTs was investigated by the radius of gyration. Influence factors such as the initial angle between polynylon66 chain and nanotube axis, SWCNT radius and length of polynylon66 on interfacial adhesion of single-walled carbon nanotube-polymer and the radius of gyration of the polymers were studied. These results will help to better understand the interfacial interaction between polymer and carbon nanotube (CNT) and also guide the fabrication of high performance polymer/carbon nanotube nanocomposites.


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