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Main Authors: Un, Hio-Ieng, Iwanowski, Kamil, Orri, Jordi Ferrer, Jacobs, Ian E., Fukui, Naoya, Cornil, David, Beljonne, David, Simoncelli, Michele, Nishihara, Hiroshi, Sirringhaus, Henning
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11555
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author Un, Hio-Ieng
Iwanowski, Kamil
Orri, Jordi Ferrer
Jacobs, Ian E.
Fukui, Naoya
Cornil, David
Beljonne, David
Simoncelli, Michele
Nishihara, Hiroshi
Sirringhaus, Henning
author_facet Un, Hio-Ieng
Iwanowski, Kamil
Orri, Jordi Ferrer
Jacobs, Ian E.
Fukui, Naoya
Cornil, David
Beljonne, David
Simoncelli, Michele
Nishihara, Hiroshi
Sirringhaus, Henning
contents Thermoelectric materials, enabling direct waste-heat to electricity conversion, need to be highly electrically conducting while simultaneously thermally insulating. This is fundamentally challenging since electrical and thermal conduction are usually coupled. Here, we discover that quasi-2D conjugated coordination polymer films exhibit this ideal mix of antithetical properties due to coexistence of defect-tolerant charge transport and defect-sensitive heat propagation. The former is highlighted by the highest conductivities > 2000 S cm-1 with metallic temperature dependence observed in disordered films with paracrystallinity > 10%, while the latter manifests in low, temperature-activated lattice thermal conductivities (< 0.38 W m-1 K-1) originating from small-amplitude, quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics with disorder-limited lifetimes and vibrational scattering length on the order of interatomic spacing. Based on temperature-dependent thermoelectric and magnetotransport experiments we identify a two-carrier (hole-electron), ambipolar metallic transport regime as the origin of relatively small Seebeck coefficients in these materials. Our findings identify conjugated coordination polymers as attractive materials for applications in thermoelectric energy harvesting, (bio)electronics and energy storage.
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spellingShingle Defect-tolerant electron and defect-sensitive phonon transport in quasi-2D conjugated coordination polymers
Un, Hio-Ieng
Iwanowski, Kamil
Orri, Jordi Ferrer
Jacobs, Ian E.
Fukui, Naoya
Cornil, David
Beljonne, David
Simoncelli, Michele
Nishihara, Hiroshi
Sirringhaus, Henning
Materials Science
Thermoelectric materials, enabling direct waste-heat to electricity conversion, need to be highly electrically conducting while simultaneously thermally insulating. This is fundamentally challenging since electrical and thermal conduction are usually coupled. Here, we discover that quasi-2D conjugated coordination polymer films exhibit this ideal mix of antithetical properties due to coexistence of defect-tolerant charge transport and defect-sensitive heat propagation. The former is highlighted by the highest conductivities > 2000 S cm-1 with metallic temperature dependence observed in disordered films with paracrystallinity > 10%, while the latter manifests in low, temperature-activated lattice thermal conductivities (< 0.38 W m-1 K-1) originating from small-amplitude, quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics with disorder-limited lifetimes and vibrational scattering length on the order of interatomic spacing. Based on temperature-dependent thermoelectric and magnetotransport experiments we identify a two-carrier (hole-electron), ambipolar metallic transport regime as the origin of relatively small Seebeck coefficients in these materials. Our findings identify conjugated coordination polymers as attractive materials for applications in thermoelectric energy harvesting, (bio)electronics and energy storage.
title Defect-tolerant electron and defect-sensitive phonon transport in quasi-2D conjugated coordination polymers
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11555