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Title: Defect-engineered reduced graphene oxide sheets with high electric conductivity and controlled thermal conductivity for soft and flexible wearable thermoelectric generators
Authors: Zeng, W 
Tao, XM 
Lin, S 
Lee, C 
Shi, D 
Lam, KH 
Huang, B
Wang, Q
Zhao, Y
Issue Date: Dec-2018
Source: Nano energy, Dec. 2018, v. 54, p. 163-174
Abstract: The direct use of graphene for potential thermoelectric material requires the opening of its bandgap without loss of its high electric conductivity. We herein demonstrate a synchronous reduction and assembly strategy to fabricate large-area reduced graphene oxide films with high electric conductivity and optimized low thermal conductivity assembly. The reduced graphene oxide films have a high electric conductivity and low thermal conductivity, which results from high longitudinal carrier mobility of the lattice domains as well as the enhanced scattering of phonons in the defects and their boundary that substantially reduces the mean phonon free path and the thermal conductivity. Flexible thermoelectric generators were prepared by assembling reduced graphene oxide film on 3D printed polydimethylsiloxane grids, demonstrating a remarkable output voltage of 57.33 mV/g at a temperature difference of 50 K. A wristband-type flexible thermoelectric generator with 7 repeating units generated a maximum power density of 4.19 µW/g at ambient temperature of 15 °C. The 3D printed generator is promising in providing power autonomy to wearable microwatt electronic devices. In addition, we believe that this work can be easily scaled up and can offer the pathway to produce large-scale manufacturing of graphene based materials for future microelectronics and large-scaled flexible and wearable energy harvesting systems.
Keywords: Energy harvesting
Graphene
Solution process
Thermoelectric generator
Wearable
Publisher: Elsevier
Journal: Nano energy 
ISSN: 2211-2855
EISSN: 2211-3282
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.10.015
Rights: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
© 2018 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
The following publication Zeng, W., Tao, X. -., Lin, S., Lee, C., Shi, D., Lam, K. -., . . . Zhao, Y. (2018). Defect-engineered reduced graphene oxide sheets with high electric conductivity and controlled thermal conductivity for soft and flexible wearable thermoelectric generators. Nano Energy, 54, 163-174 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.10.015
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