Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 50, Pages 60154-60162Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c17059
Keywords
ionic Seebeck effect; thermal conductivity; thermocouple; ferri-/ferrocyanide; iron (II/III) chloride
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2020R1A2C1005763]
- National Research Foundation (NRF) - Ministry of Science ICT [NRF-2017M3A9E2063256]
- Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP)
- Ministry of Trade, Industry Energy (MOTIE) [20194030202340]
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The paper-based ionic thermocouple (P-iTC) offers improved temperature sensitivity and thermal conductivity, providing efficient temperature measurement with stability and reliability. Its practicality is demonstrated through a planar array for real-time temperature monitoring of surface temperature distribution, with low cost and high performance.
Accurate and yet cost-effective temperature measurements are required in various sectors of academia and industry. Thermocouples (TCs) are most widely used for temperature measurements; however, their low temperature sensitivity and high thermal conductivity should be improved to ensure the reliable measurement of output voltage for small temperature differences. To address this, a paper-based ionic thermocouple (P-iTC) presented here utilizes a pair of paper strips soaked with the electrolytes of potassium ferri-/ferrocyanide and iron (II/III) chloride redox couples, which are used as p- and n-type elements, respectively. The fabricated P-iTC provides 70X higher temperature sensitivity (alpha, 2.8 mV/K) and 30X lower thermal conductivity (k, 0.8 W/m K) than those of commercial K-type TCs, thereby yielding a remarkably high alpha/k ratio of 3.5 mV m/W. Reliable sensing performance is measured during three weeks of operation, which indicates that the P-iTC should be stable in long-term operation. To demonstrate the practicality of the P-iTC, a 3 x 3 planar array of P-iTCs is fabricated to monitor the temperature profile of a surface in contact with heat sources. Using pencil-drawn graphite electrodes on paper, a highly cost-effective P-iTC with the material cost of similar to 0.5 cents per device is also fabricated, which is successfully used to monitor cold chain temperatures while retaining its excellent temperature-sensing performance.
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