Investigations into the strain dependence of thermoelectric properties in organic semiconductors

热电材料能够将热梯度转换为电压，因此在废热收集和可穿戴电子产品中具有潜在的应用前景。有机半导体尤其有希望，因为它有可能将其热导和电导解耦，而且易于加工和灵活。然而，关于这种灵活性如何影响它们的热电性能，以及它是否可以用于提高性能，人们知之甚少。

Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting a heat gradient into a voltage so have potential applications in waste heat capture and wearable electronics. Organic semiconductors especially are promising due to the potential to decouple their thermal and electrical conductivities, as well as being easy to process and flexible. However little is known about how this flexibility affects their thermoelectric properties and whether it can be used to enhance performance.