Substituted ferrocenes and iodine as synergistic thermoelectrochemical heat harvesting redox couples in ionic liquids

E. H. B. Anari, M. Romano, W. X. Teh, J. J. Black, E. Jiang, J. Chen, T. Q. To, J. Panchompoo, L. Aldous

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Abstract

Combining ferrocene and iodine results in enhanced
thermoelectrochemical (or thermogalvanic) waste heat harvesting
abilities, for both the Seebeck coefficient and the overall power
output. All systems displayed a mixture of ferrocene, ferrocenium,
iodine and triiodide. The observed enhancement correlates with
lower electron-density on the ferrocene; the synergistic
improvement observed for mixtures of substituted ferrocenes and
iodine is attributed to the formation of charge-transfer complexes.
Combining dibutanoylferrocene and iodine resulted in the highest
Seebeck coefficient of 1.67 mV K-1
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)745-748
JournalCHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS- ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY
Volume52
Issue number4
Early online date4 Nov 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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