Journal article
ZnO based thermopower wave sources
S Walia, R Weber, S Balendhran, D Yao, JT Abrahamson, S Zhuiykov, M Bhaskaran, S Sriram, MS Strano, K Kalantar-zadeh
Chemical Communications | Published : 2012
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc33146b
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. © 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Grants
Awarded by Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowships from the Australian Research Council through Discovery Projects
Funding Acknowledgements
MB and SS acknowledge the Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowships from the Australian Research Council through Discovery Projects DP1092717 and DP110100262, respectively. The work was partially supported by the CSIRO Sensors and Sensor Networks Transformational Capability Platform and CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering Division-strategic co-investment SIP6 project "Nano Scale Sensor Networks".