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Thermoelectric Properties of Thin Films from Sorted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.

Blazej PodlesnyBogumiła KumanekAngana BorahRyohei YamaguchiTomohiro ShirakiTsuyohiko FujigayaDawid Janas
Published in: Materials (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) remain one of the most promising materials of our times. One of the goals is to implement semiconducting and metallic SWCNTs in photonics and microelectronics, respectively. In this work, we demonstrated how such materials could be obtained from the parent material by using the aqueous two-phase extraction method (ATPE) at a large scale. We also developed a dedicated process on how to harvest the SWCNTs from the polymer matrices used to form the biphasic system. The technique is beneficial as it isolates SWCNTs with high purity while simultaneously maintaining their surface intact. To validate the utility of the metallic and semiconducting SWCNTs obtained this way, we transformed them into thin free-standing films and characterized their thermoelectric properties.
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