Significantly Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Copper Phthalocyanine/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Hybrids by Iodine Doping.

The copper phthalocyanine/single-walled carbon nanotube (CuPcI/SWCNT) hybrids were fabricated through doping the CuPc/SWCNT mixture using iodine vapor. It was found that both CuPc and SWCNTs were oxidized by iodine vapor resulting in great increase in carrier concentration. Moreover, the strong π-π conjugation interactions between CuPcI- and I-doped SWCNTs make the CuPcI molecules to assemble on the surface of SWCNTs in an ordered face-on packing, which benefits decreasing the carrier transport barrier across the CuPcI/SWCNT interfaces. The combination of iodine bidoping and the ordered face-on packing of CuPcI on the SWCNT surface realizes the synergetic enhancement of carrier concentration and carrier mobility and therefore the great improvement of electrical conductivity. The maximum electrical conductivity (6281 S cm-1) and thermoelectric power factor (∼304 μW m-1 K-2) at room temperature were obtained at a composition of 60 wt % SWCNTs. The power factor value is 3 orders of magnitude higher than the pure CuPcI and 1 order of magnitude higher than SWCNTs. Consequently, the highest ZT value of CuPc/SWCNT hybrids is up to 0.03, which is among the highest value of organic small-molecule complexes.

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