This review deals with the recent development of thermoelectric(TE)nanofibers and their composite materials.Typical processing and manufacturing technologies for preparing nanofibers are introduced.Specifically,electr...This review deals with the recent development of thermoelectric(TE)nanofibers and their composite materials.Typical processing and manufacturing technologies for preparing nanofibers are introduced.Specifically,electrospinning,electrochemical oxidation,and liquid phase chemical deposition approaches are discussed.Various kinds of TE nanofibers are introduced one-by-one.Several important inorganic and organic nanofibers including carbon-based nanofibers,conducting polymer-based nanofibers,and transition metal oxide-based nanofibers with significant thermoelectric responses are shown.Thermoelectric properties of some important nanofibers are compared.The applications of TE nanofibers for energy conversion,thermal imaging and temperature sensing are illustrated.Perspectives and concluding remarks are presented.展开更多
基金“This research was performed under an appointment to the U.S.Department of Homeland Security(DHS)Science&Technology(S&T)Directorate Office of University Programs Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions,administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education(ORISE)through an interagency agreement between the U.S.Department of Energy(DOE)and DHS.ORISE is managed by ORAU under DOE contract number DE-SC0014664All opinions expressed in this paper are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the policies and views of DHS,DOE or ORAU/ORISE.”The support from the hosting site,Arctic Domain Awareness Center(ADAC),is gratefully acknowledged.The author would also like to acknowledge the support from US National Science Foundation under the Grant Number CMMI-1940680 with the project title“NSF Industry-Academia Collaboration Initiation”through University of Florida.
文摘This review deals with the recent development of thermoelectric(TE)nanofibers and their composite materials.Typical processing and manufacturing technologies for preparing nanofibers are introduced.Specifically,electrospinning,electrochemical oxidation,and liquid phase chemical deposition approaches are discussed.Various kinds of TE nanofibers are introduced one-by-one.Several important inorganic and organic nanofibers including carbon-based nanofibers,conducting polymer-based nanofibers,and transition metal oxide-based nanofibers with significant thermoelectric responses are shown.Thermoelectric properties of some important nanofibers are compared.The applications of TE nanofibers for energy conversion,thermal imaging and temperature sensing are illustrated.Perspectives and concluding remarks are presented.
