Thermoelectric Materials: Carbon‐Nanotube‐Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (Adv. Mater. 11/2018)

Abstract

Carbon-based thermoelectric materials are attractive due to their use of nontoxic materials, their solution-based processing, and their high specific energy (i.e., W g−1). In article number 1704386, Jeffrey L. Blackburn, Andrew J. Ferguson, Chungyeon Cho, and Jaime C. Grunlan review these organic thermoelectric materials, which offer the opportunity to produce wearable devices that can recycle body heat. The image, created by photographer Igor Kraguljac, shows a real nanotube-based thermoelectric device using body heat as the source to generate the voltage needed to power a lightbulb. Although this is a real working device, the image shown is a dramatization.