Abstract
Although composites of organic polymers or n-type small molecule/carbon nanotube (CNT) have achieved significant advances in thermoelectric (TE) applications, p-type TE composites of small organic molecules as thick surface coating layers on the surfaces of inorganic nanoparticles still remain a great challenge. Taking advantage of in situ oxidation reaction of thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine (TP) into TP di-N-oxide (TPNO) on single-walled CNT (SWCNT) surface, a novel synthesis strategy is proposed to achieve flexible films of TE composites with narrow-bandgap (1.19 eV) small molecule coating on SWCNT surface. The TE performance can be effectively enhanced and conveniently tuned by poly(sodium-p-styrenesulfonate) content, TPNO/SWCNT mass ratio, and posttreatment by various polar solvents. The maximum of the composite power factor at room temperature is 29.4 ± 1.0 µW m-1 K-2 . The work presents a way to achieve flexible films of p-type small organic molecule/inorganic composites with clear surface coating morphology for TE application.
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