Flexible thermoelectric materials and generators: challenges and innovations

Y Wang, L Yang, XL Shi, X Shi, L Chen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The urgent need for ecofriendly, stable, long‐lifetime power sources is driving the booming
market for miniaturized and integrated electronics, including wearable and medical …

Atomic/molecular layer deposition for designer's functional metal–organic materials

J Multia, M Karppinen - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) for high‐quality conformal inorganic thin films is one of the
cornerstones of modern microelectronics, while molecular layer deposition (MLD) is its less …

Effect of lignin on the thermal stability of cellulose nanofibrils produced from bagasse pulp

N Zhang, P Tao, Y Lu, S Nie - Cellulose, 2019 - Springer
In this work, the effects of lignin on the thermal stability of bagasse cellulose nanofibrils
(CNFs) were investigated. The CNFs were prepared with different lignin content bagasse …

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of flexible organic/inorganic thermoelectric composites

Q Jiang, J Yang, P Hing, H Ye - Materials Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectrics can recover waste heat, environmental heat or heats from different sources
and convert it to electricity. Inorganic or metal thermoelectrics have higher ZT values and …

Atomic-level structural and electronic properties of hybrid inorganic–organic ZnO: hydroquinone superlattices fabricated by ALD/MLD

AJ Karttunen, T Tynell, M Karppinen - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We investigated crystalline ZnO: hydroquinone (HQ) superlattices grown layer-by-layer by
the combined atomic/molecular layer deposition (ALD/MLD) technique; such ALD/MLD layer …

Wearable and flexible thermoelectrics for energy harvesting

R Tian, C Wan, N Hayashi, T Aoai, K Koumoto - MRS Bulletin, 2018 - cambridge.org
Conjugated polymers have emerged as potential candidates for thermal-energy harvesting.
Their flexible and lightweight nature, as well as scalable processing, make them …

Flexible ε-Fe2O3-Terephthalate Thin-Film Magnets through ALD/MLD

A Philip, JP Niemela, GC Tewari, B Putz… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pliable and lightweight thin-film magnets performing at room temperature are indispensable
ingredients of the next-generation flexible electronics. However, conventional inorganic …

Layer‐engineered functional multilayer thin‐film structures and interfaces through atomic and molecular layer deposition

M Heikkinen, R Ghiyasi… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology is one of the cornerstones of the modern
microelectronics industry, where it is exploited in the fabrication of high‐quality inorganic …

Flexible thermoelectric ZnO–organic superlattices on cotton textile substrates by ALD/MLD

AJ Karttunen, L Sarnes, R Townsend… - Advanced Electronic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The thermoelectric properties of both pristine ZnO and ZnO–organic superlattice thin films
deposited on a cotton textile are investigated. The thin films are fabricated by atomic layer …

Inorganic–organic superlattice thin films for thermoelectrics

JP Niemelä, AJ Karttunen, M Karppinen - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoscale layer-engineering is an attractive tool to tailor the performance of thermoelectric
materials as it potentially allows us to suppress thermal conductivity without significantly …