A Review on the Fabrication of Polymer-Based Thermoelectric Materials and Fabrication Methods

• Main Authors: Kamarudin, M.A., Sahamir, S.R., Datta, R.S., Long, B.D., Sabri, Mohd Faizul Mohd, Said, Suhana Mohd
• Format: Article
• Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/11832/; http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2013/713640/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/713640

Thermoelectricity, by converting heat energy directly into useable electricity, offers a promising technology to convert heat from solar energy and to recover waste heat from industrial sectors and automobile exhausts. In recent years, most of the efforts have been done on improving the thermoelectr...