Thermal electric effects and heat generation in polypyrrole coated PET fabrics

Details Thermal electric effects and heat generation in polypyrrole coated PET fabrics Thermal electric effects and heat generation in polypyrrole coated PET fabrics

2007-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0706.3697v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

12 pages and 9 figures

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Polypyrrole chemically synthesized on PET gives rise to textiles with a high electric conductivity, suitable for several applications from antistatics to electromagnetic interference shielding devices. Here, we discuss investigations on thermal electric performances of the polypyrrole coated PET in a wide range of temperatures above room temperature. The Seebeck coefficient turns out to be comparable with that of metal thermocouple materials. Since polypyrrole shows extremely low thermal diffusivities regardless of the electrical conductivity, the low thermal conductivity gives significant advantage to the thermoelectric figure-of-merit ZT, comparable with that of some traditional inorganic thermoelectric materials. The heat generation is also investigated for possible heating textile devices.

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