Engineering liquid crystal elastomer unlocks high thermopower for fiber-shaped ionic thermoelectric capacitors
Liuqi Cao, Tingting Sun, Huiru Zhao, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang · 2025
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Liuqi Cao and four colleagues turn a liquid crystal rubber into a fiber that harvests heat as stored charge, in a 2025 study. Ionic thermoelectric materials promise to tap low-grade warmth, but the negative type lags far behind the positive.
The team rebuilt the rubber with its crystal units in the main chain, then swelled it with one of two salts. That spanned the widest adjustable range yet between positive and negative response in one material family. Three fiber pairs in a woven device produced over four hundred millivolts from a two-and-a-half-degree difference. The fibers survived stretching, cycling, and long runs. Wearable and flexible uses are the stated target.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Liuqi Cao, Tingting Sun, Huiru Zhao, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |