Journal of Inorganic Materials

   

Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Two-dimensional Planar Copper Polyphthalocyanine by Dispersing Single-walled Carbon Nanotube

HU Yuchen1,2, XU Zishuo2,3, HU Yuejuan2,3, CHEN Lidong2,3, YAO Qin2,3   

  1. 1. School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China;
    2. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China;
    3. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2025-02-27 Revised:2025-04-17
  • Contact: YAO Qin, senior engineer. E-mail: yaoqin@mail.sic.ac.cn
  • About author:HU Yuchen (2000–), female, Master candidate. E-mail: huych2022@shanghaitech.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (U23A20685)

Abstract: Two-dimensional planar metal polyphthalocyanine is considered a kind of promising organic thermoelectric material due to its unique molecular structure and high carrier mobility, but its low carrier concentration and low electrical conductivity imped the improvement of thermoelectric performance. In this work, copper polyphthalocyanine/single-walled carbon nanotubes (CuPPc/SWCNTs) composites were prepared by in-situ polymerization and mechanical ball-milling, respectively. As compared with ball-milled sample (BM-CuPPc/SWCNTs), in-situ polymerized sample (IS-CuPPc/SWCNTs) presents strong π-π conjugation between CuPPc and SWCNTs, which can effectively reduce the interfacial resistance between CuPPc and SWCNTs. Therefore, IS-CuPPc/SWCNTs shows larger electrical conductivity than BM-CuPPc/SWCNTs at high SWCNTs concentration. With 80% (in mass) SWCNTs, the electrical conductivity of IS-CuPPc/SWCNTs reaches 1.31×104 S·m-1, 30% higher than that of BM-CuPPc/SWCNTs, and six orders of magnitude higher than that of pure copper polyphthalocyanine. Meanwhile, maximum thermoelectric power factor of IS-CuPPc/SWCNTs reaches 18.24 μW·m-1·K-2, which is higher than that of BM-CuPPc/SWCNTs and surpasses that of pure copper phthalocyanine by six orders of magnitude. This study provides an effective way to enhance thermoelectric properties of metallic polyphthalocyanine.

Key words: copper polyphthalocyanine, carbon nanotube, composite, thermoelectric properties

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