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- [Qingshuo Wei] Conducting Polymer-Based Thermally Chargeable Electrochemical Cells
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Nanomaterials Research Institute
Senior researcher
This work proposes to use polymer-based electrochemical cells to harvest the thermal energy. The target devices are employing redox reactions with positive and negative entropy, which could be charged using only thermal energy. The temperature of the heat source and discharge environment is critical; however, a maintained temperature difference between different electrodes is not necessary.