Molecular design and control of fullerene-based bi-thermoelectric materials
- Submitting institution
-
University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 27504
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
-
10.1038/NMAT4487
- Title of journal
- Nature Materials
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 289
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- UNSPECIFIED
- ISSN
- 1476-1122
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
7
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper was the culmination of an international collaboration between UK and Spain, and we achieved a significant first. We demonstrated a new concept of bi-thermoelectricity, in which the sign and magnitude of the thermopower of the molecule Sc3N@C80 can be tuned. This was a first for fullerenes. We also showed that the effect should be present in any material with orientation-dependent and pressure-dependent transmission resonances through the Fermi energy. Therefore, we pioneered the design of new thermoelectric materials for converting waste heat directly into electricity. This was far-reaching for the development of molecular electronics.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
