Issue 60, 2012

ZnO based thermopower wave sources

Abstract

Exothermic chemical reactions of nitrocellulose are coupled onto thermoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) layers to generate self-propagating thermopower waves resulting in highly oscillatory voltage output of the order of 500 mV. The peak specific power obtained from ZnO based sources is approximately 0.5 kW kg−1.

Graphical abstract: ZnO based thermopower wave sources

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 May 2012
Accepted
07 Jun 2012
First published
11 Jun 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 7462-7464

ZnO based thermopower wave sources

S. Walia, R. Weber, S. Balendhran, D. Yao, J. T. Abrahamson, S. Zhuiykov, M. Bhaskaran, S. Sriram, M. S. Strano and K. Kalantar-zadeh, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 7462 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC33146B

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