2012/11/02 by S. I. Trashkeev, Sergey I. Trashkeev, Trashkeev, Sergey I. +3
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1211.0474
10 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 2012/11/02 · arxiv created 2013/08/01 · arxiv updated 2013/08/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The paper describes preliminary investigations of a new effect in conducting anisotropic liquids, which leads to thermoelectric conversion of energy. Nematic liquid crystals with semiconducting dopes are used. A thermoelectric figure of merit ZT = 0.2 is obtained in experiments. The effect can be explained by assuming that the thermocurrent in semiconducting nematics, in contrast to the Seebeck effect, is a nonlinear function of the temperature gradient and of the temperature itself. Though the discovered effect has to be further investigated, the data obtained suggest that it can be effectively used in alternative energy engineering.