An ionic thermoelectric ratchet effect in polymeric electrolytes
Ayesha Sultana, Aloïs Würger, Jaywant Phopase, Xavier Crispin, Dan Zhao
Abstract
By varying the solvent and concentration of PEG based electrolytes, we tuned the molar conductivity and revealed the correlation with the Seebeck coefficient, which follows the theory of the thermoelectric ratchet effect in ions with hopping dynamics.
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