Advanced PEDOT Thermoelectric Materials

Fengxing Jiang received a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Soochow University, Suzhou, China in 2013. He is a Professor of Organic Electronics at the Department of Physics at Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Jiangxi, China. His research interests center mainly on the use of PEDOT-based conducting polymers for application in organic electronics and bioelectronics. Congcong Liu received a PhD from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai, China in 2019. He is a Professor of Organic Composites at the Flexible Electronics Innovation Institute, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Jiangxi, China. His research interests include the design and synthesis of conducting polymers/two-dimensional inorganic composites and their applications in energy conversion and energy storage. Jingkun Xu received a PhD in polymer chemistry and physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2003. He is a professor of polymer chemistry at the Flexible Electronics Innovation Institute, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University and has led the Organic Electronics Group since 2004. His research interests include the design and synthesis of conducting polymers for application in thermoelectric conversion, electrochromics, supercapacitors, biochemical sensors, and fuel cells.

• 1. Short history of thermoelectric conjugated PEDOT development2. PEDOT preparation, morphology, and electronic structure3. Thermoelectric properties of PEDOTs4. Thermoelectric transport and PEDOT dependence5. Optimizing the thermoelectric performance of PEDOTs6. Thermoelectric PEDOTs: Derivatives, analogues, and copolymers7. PEDOT-based thermoelectric nanocomposites/hybrids8. Thermoelectric PEDOT measurement techniques9. Flexible and wearable thermoelectric PEDOT devices10. Challenges and perspectives