Development of Thermoelectric Conversion Materials Using Carbon Nanotube Sheets

Recently, thermoelectric (TE) conversion has attracted strong interests toward converting waste heat to electrical potential for applications such as portable and wearable electronic devices. Among a number of different candidates including inorganic and polymeric materials, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are particularly attractive due to their non-toxicity, material abundance, solution processability, remarkable electrical conductivity and so on. Here, progress in TE research based on SWCNT sheets is reviewed mainly for air stabilization of n-type SWCNT sheets and the TE properties of semiconducting SWCNT sheets.