ABSTRACT
In this chapter, an overview of conducting polymer materials and their composite materials for thermoelectric energy conversion is provided. Typical conducting polymers and the related processing methodologies are introduced. Following that, we present a case study on the thermoelectric property of a polyaniline (PANI)-coated TiO2 nanotube (NT) nanocomposite. The conducting polymer, PANI, was prepared by electrochemical oxidation on the NTs. The morphology of the nanocomposites was observed. The highest absolute value of the Seebeck coefficient for the TiO2 NT/polyaniline nanocomposite materials was found to be 124 μV/K.
