Published in

Wiley, Advanced Materials, 36(35), 2023

DOI: 10.1002/adma.202303341

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Direct Conversion of Phase‐Transition Entropy into Electrochemical Thermopower and the Peltier Effect

This paper was not found in any repository, but could be made available legally by the author.
This paper was not found in any repository, but could be made available legally by the author.

Full text: Unavailable

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Orange circle
Postprint: archiving restricted
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

AbstractA thermocell generates thermopower from a temperature difference (ΔT) between two electrodes. The converse process of thermocells is an electrochemical Peltier effect, which creates a ΔT on the electrodes by applying an external current. The Seebeck coefficient (Se) of the electrochemical system is proportional to the entropy change of the redox reaction; therefore, a redox system having a significant entropy change is expected to increase the Se. In this study, a thermoresponsive polymer having a redox‐active moiety, poly(N‐isopropyl acrylamide‐co‐N‐(2‐acrylamide ethyl)‐N′‐n‐propylviologen) (PNV), is used as the redox species of a thermocell. PNV2+ dication undergoes the coil–globule phase transition upon the reduction to PNV+ cation radical, and a large entropy change is introduced because water molecules are freed from the polymer chains. The Se of PNV thermocell drastically increased to +2.1 mV K−1 at the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PNV. The entropy change calculated from the increment of Se agrees with the value evaluated by differential scanning calorimetry. Moreover, the electrochemical Peltier effect is observed when the device temperature is increased above the LCST. This study shows that the large entropy change associated with the coil–globule phase transition can be used in electrochemical thermal management and refrigeration technologies.