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• TITLE: Polypyrrole Coated PET Fabrics for Thermal Applications

  AUTHORS: Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Luca Florio, Jamshid Avloni, Arthur Henn

  KEYWORDS: Conductive Polymers, Polypyrrole, Thermoelectric Materials

  JOURNAL NAME: Materials Sciences and Applications, Vol.1 No.4, October 29, 2010

  ABSTRACT: Polypyrrole can be chemically synthesized on PET fabrics, giving rise to textiles with high electric conductivity. These textiles are suitable for several applications from antistatic films to electromagnetic interference shielding devices. Here we discuss the thermal-electric performance and the heat generation of polypyrrole coated PET fabric samples, previously studied because of their electric conductivity and electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness. The measured Seebeck effect is comparable with that of metallic thermocouples. Since polypyrrole shows extremely low thermal diffusivities regardless of the electrical conductivity, the low thermal conductivity gives significant advantage to the thermoelectric figure-of-merit ZT, comparable with that of some traditional inorganic thermoelectric materials. The heat generation is also investigated for possible heating textile devices. The results confirm polypyrrole as a prom- ising material for thermal electric applications due to its easy preparation in low cost processing.