Woven-Yarn Thermoelectric Textiles

Jae Ah Lee; Ali E Aliev; Julia S Bykova; Mônica Jung de Andrade; Daeyoung Kim; Hyeon Jun Sim; Xavier Lepró; Anvar A Zakhidov; Jeong-Bong Lee; Geoffrey M Spinks; Siegmar Roth; Seon Jeong Kim; Ray H Baughman

doi:10.1002/adma.201600709

Woven-Yarn Thermoelectric Textiles

Adv Mater. 2016 Jul;28(25):5038-44. doi: 10.1002/adma.201600709. Epub 2016 Apr 25.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA.
² Center for Self-powered Actuation and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791, South Korea.
³ Nano-Science and Technology Center, Lintec of America, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA.
⁴ Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA.
⁵ ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.

PMID: 27110905
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201600709

Abstract

The fabrication and characterization of highly flexible textiles are reported. These textiles can harvest thermal energy from temperature gradients in the desirable through-thickness direction. The tiger yarns containing n- and p-type segments are woven to provide textiles containing n-p junctions. A high power output of up to 8.6 W m(-2) is obtained for a temperature difference of 200 °C.

Keywords: garter stitch; plain weave; textile; thermoelectric generators; zigzag stitch.