Scientists in Korea have produced a flexible thin film device that can be powered by the heat from a person’s fingertips. The material is easy to process and can be cut with scissors. It displays high electrical conductivity, which enabled it to be used as an electrode itself without using an additional conductive electrode. The film has a large power factor of 1,270 μW m-1 K-2.
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Flexible PEDOT electrodes with large thermoelectric power factors to generate electricity by fingertips
Eunkyoung Kim, Teahoon Park, Chihyun Park, Byeonggwan Kim and Haijin Shin
DOI: 10.1039/C3EE23729J
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