Ultrahigh-Power-Factor Carbon Nanotubes and an Ingenious Strategy for Thermoelectric Performance Evaluation.

@article{Zhou2016UltrahighPowerFactorCN,
  title={Ultrahigh-Power-Factor Carbon Nanotubes and an Ingenious Strategy for Thermoelectric Performance Evaluation.},
  author={Wenbin Zhou and Qingxia Fan and Qiang Zhang and Kewei Li and Le Cai and Xiaogang Gu and Feng Yang and Nan Zhang and Zhuojian Xiao and Huiliang Chen and Shiqi Xiao and Yanchun Wang and Huaping Liu and Weiya Zhou and Sishen Xie},
  journal={Small},
  year={2016},
  volume={12 25},
  pages={
          3407-14
        }
}
An ingenious strategy is put forward to evaluate accurately the thermoelectric performance of carbon nanotube (CNT) thin films, including thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, and Seebeck coefficient in the same direction. The results reveal that the as-prepared CNT interconnected films and CNT fibers possess enormous potential of thermoelectric applications because of their ultrahigh power factors. 
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