Publications

2025

  • J-W. G. Bos et al., 2025 Roadmap Toward Sustainable Thermoelectrics (2025), https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/ae2d98
  • J. Serrano Claumarchirant, K. Rahmani, P. Kasongo-Ntumba, T. Degousée and O. Fenwick,  Obtaining Orthogonal Thermal Conductivity Components from Anisotropic Thin Films Using the Pseudo Steady-State 3ω Method, Advanced Theory & Simulations, e00788 (2025)  https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.202500788
  • X. Yu, Q. Zhou, D. Papageorgiou, H. Zhang, H. Yan, M. Reece, M. Yang, E. Bilotti Review of enhancing thermal conductivity in polymer-based dielectrics as passive components, Progress in Polymer Science, 102025 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2025.102025
  • S. Z. H. Shah, W. W. Tiju, J. Recatala-Gomez, P. Kasongo-Ntumba, J. Serrano Claumarchirant, W. Zhang, D.V.M. Repaka, I. McCullough, O. Fenwick et al. Enhanced Charge Transport at the Interface in P3HT-Tellurium Nanowires Hybrid Materials for High Thermoelectric Performance, Advanced Functional Materials, e15055 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202515055
  • X. Tao, Q. Zheng, C. Zeng, H. Potter, Z. Zhang, J. Ellingford, R. S. Bonilla, E. Bilotti, P. S. Grant & H. E. Assender, Nature Communications, Cu- or Ag-containing Bi-Sb-Te for in-line roll-to-roll patterned thin-film thermoelectrics, 16, 196 (2025) link
  • M. Mcvea, C. Nielsen, O. Fenwick & P. Szilagyi, The Design of Intrinsically Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks for Thermoelectric Materials, Small Science, 5, 2400469 (2025)   https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202400469
  • W. Tang, S. Zhang, T. Liu, C. Jun, S-H Kim, C. Scheu, S. Yue and O. Fenwick, Reduced Thermal Conductivity and Improved Stability by B-Site Doping in Tin Halide Perovskites, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02618
  • C. Asker, C. Pipitone, F. Ursi, K. Chen, A.G. Ricciardulli, E. S. Suena Galindez, S. Luong, P. Samorì, M. Reece, A. Martonara, F. Giannici & O. Fenwick, Doping and thermoelectric properties of the zero-dimensional inorganic halide perovskite derivative, Cs3 Cu2I5, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13, 26009-26018 (2025) http://DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TA02695D

2024

  • S. Thakkar, T. Nabiyeva, Q. Weinbach, H. Bhatia, Z. Liu, T. Ferté, C. Leuvrey, A. Carvalho,B. C. Schroeder, L. Biniek, N-type thermoelectric bulk samples of poly(nickel-ethylenetetrathiolate): the positive effect of porosity on decreasing thermal conductivity, Polymer, 296, 126761 (2024).  Link
  • Trifiletti V, Massetti M, Calloni A, Luong S, Pianetti A, Milita S, Schroeder BC, BussettiG, Binetti S, Fabiano S and Fenwick O, Bismuth-Based Perovskite Derivates with Thermal Voltage Exceeding 40 mV/K, J. Phys. Chem. C, 128, 13, 5408–5417 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c06324

  • Cowen LM, Westwood MM, Kasongo-Ntumba PMF, Nevjestic I, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Heutz S, Fenwick O and Schroeder BC, Diketopyrrolopyrrole based molecular semiconductors with intrinsic conductivity, Synthetic Metals, 307, 117678 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2024.117678 

  • Zeng C, Chen K, Koz C, Stefanaki E-C, Galindez ESS, Zhang H, Fenwick O, Tuley R and Bilotti E. Kirigami-inspired organic and inorganic film-based flexible thermoelectric devices with built-in heat sink. Nano Energy, 121, 109213-109213 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.109213
  • Tao X, Dutson J, Zeng C, Asker C, Luong S, Reza A, Hao B, Zhang Z, Ellingford J, Bonilla RS, Fenwick O, Bilotti E, Hofmann F, Thwaites M and Assender HE (2024). Exceptional Performance of Room Temperature Sputtered Flexible Thermoelectric Thin Film Using High Target Utilisation Sputtering Technique. Advanced Materials Technologies, 9 (6), 2301958 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202301958
  • Liu Z, Haque MA, Savory C, Liu T, Matsuishi S, Fenwick O, Scanlon DO, Zwijnenburg MA, Baran D and Schroeder BC (2023). Controlling the thermoelectric properties of organo-metallic coordination polymers through backbone geometry. Faraday Discussions (2024) https://doi.org/10.1039/D3FD00139C

2023

  • V. Pecunia et al. Roadmap on Energy Harvesting Materials, Journal of Physics: Materials,  DOI 10.1088/2515-7639/acc550. [5.17 Halide perovskites for thermoelectric energy harvesting, C. Asker & O. Fenwick]
  • Yu X, Steiner P, Zhou Q, Kocabas C, Zhang H, Papageorgiou DG, Fenwick O, Yan H, Reece MJ and Bilotti E (2023). Simultaneous Increase in Dielectric Breakdown Strength and Thermal Conductivity of Oriented UHMWPE Containing Diamond Nanoparticles.   Macromolecules, 56, 20, 8183–8191 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c01003 
  • P. A. Gilhooly-Finn, I. E. Jacobs, O. Bardagot, Y. Aziz-Zaffer, A. Lemaire, S. Guchait, L. Zhang, M. Freeley, W. Neal, F. Richard, M. Palma, N. Banerji, H. Sirringhaus, M. Brinkmann, C. B. Nielsen Interplay between Side Chain Density and Polymer Alignment: Two Competing Strategies for Enhancing the Thermoelectric Performance of P3HT Analogues Chem. Mater., 35, 9029–9039 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01680

2022

  • Cowen LM, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Giovannitti A, LeCroy G, Demetriou H, Neal W, Dong Y, Westwood M, Luong S, Fenwick O, Salleo A, Heutz S, Nielsen CB and Schroeder BC, Critical analysis of self-doping and water-soluble n-type organic semiconductors: structures and mechanisms, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022, 10, 8955-8963. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/TC/D2TC01108E
  • D. Rosas-Villalva, S. Singh, L. Galuska, A. Sharma, J. Han, J. Liu, M. A. Haque, A. H. Emwas, L. J. A. Koster, X. Gu, B. C. Schroeder and D. Baran, Backbone-driven host-dopant miscibility modulates molecular doping in NDI conjugated polymers, 2022, Materials Horizon , 9, 500-508. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/mh/d1mh01357b
  • U. Syafiq U, E. Isotta, N. Ataollahi, K. Lohani, S. Luong, V. Trifiletti, O. Fenwick and P. Scardi Facile and Low-Cost Fabrication of Cu/Zn/Sn-Based Ternary and Quaternary Chalcogenides Thermoelectric Generators ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2022, 5, 5, 5909–5918.  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.2c00268
  • W. Tang, T. Liu and O. Fenwick, High thermoelectric performance based on CsSnI3 thin films with improved stability, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 7020-7028
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/ta/d1ta11093d

2021

  • K. Wan, Y. Liu, G. Santagiuliana, G. Barandun, P. Taroni Junior, F. Güder, C.W. Bastiaansen, M. Baxendale, O. Fenwick, D.G. Papageorgiou, S. Krause, H. Zhang and E. Bilotti, Self-powered ultrasensitive and highly stretchable temperature–strain sensing composite yarns, Materials Horizons, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MH00908G

  • Q. Weinbach,  C. B. Nielsen  and  L. Biniek, Multi length scale porosity as a playground for organic thermoelectric applications, Journal of Materials chemistry C, 2021, 9, 10173-10192. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/TC/D1TC02331D

  • E. M. F. Vieira, J. P. B. Silva, K. Veltruská, C. M. Istrate, V. Lenzi, V. Trifiletti, B. Lorenzi, V. Matolín, C. Ghica, L. Marques, O. Fenwic and L. M. Goncalves, All-Oxide p–n Junction Thermoelectric Generator Based on SnOx and ZnO Thin Films, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c09748

  • P.A. Finn, C. Asker, K. Wan, E. Bilotti, O. Fenwick and C. B. Nielsen, Thermoelectric Materials: Current Status and Future Challenges, Front. Electron. Mater., 2021, https://doi.org/10.3389/femat.2021.677845
  • T. Degousée, V.Untilova, V. Vijaykumar, X. Xu, Y. Sun, M. Palma, M. Brinkmann, L. Biniek and O. Fenwick, High thermal conductivity states and enhanced figure of merit in aligned polymer thermoelectric materials, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ta/d1ta03377h/unauth#!divAbstract
  • Isotta E, Syafiq U, Ataollahi N, Chiappini A, Malerba C, Luong S, Trifiletti V, Fenwick O, Pugno N, Scardi P, Thermoelectric properties of CZTS thin films: effect of Cu–Zn disorder Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021 https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp01327k

2020

  • P. A. Finn, I. E. Jacobs, J. Armitage, R. Wu, B. D. Paulsen, M. Freeley, M. Palma, J. Rivnay, H Sirringhaus, C. B. Nielsen Effect of polar side chains on neutral and p-doped polythiophene  J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 16216–16223. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TC04290K
  • Tao X, Wan K, Deru J, Bilotti E and Assender HE  Thermoelectric behaviour of Bi-Te films on polymer substrates DC-sputtered at room-temperature in moving web deposition. Surface and Coatings Technology  385, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2020.125393
  • Tang W, Zhang J, Ratnasingham SR et al., Substitutional doping of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite crystals for thermoelectrics, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, 13594 – 13599, 2020. DOI: 10.1039/d0ta03648j

  • Liu Z, Liu T et al., Controlling the Thermoelectric Properties of Organometallic Coordination Polymers via Ligand Design, Advanced Functional Materials, 2003106, 2020. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202003106

  • Burton MR, Boyle CA, Liu T, McGettrick JD, Nandhakumar I, Fenwick O, and Carnie M, Full Thermoelectric Characterization of Stoichiometric Electrodeposited Thin Film Tin Selenide (SnSe), ACS Appl. Mater. InterfacesDOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c06026

  • Liu T, Tang W, Luong S and Fenwick O, High charge carrier mobility in solution processed one-dimensional lead halide perovskite single crystals and their application as photodetectors Nanoscale, 2020 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01495H

  • Milita S,  Liscio F, Cowen L, Cavallini M, Drain BA, Degousée T, Luong S, Fenwick O, Guagliardi A, Schroeder BC and Masciocchi N, Polymorphism in N,N′-dialkyl-naphthalene diimides Journal of Materials Chemistry C,  2020. DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06967D

2019

  • Liu T, Zhao X, Li J, Liu Z, Liscio F, Milita S, Schroeder BC, Fenwick O Enhanced control of self-doping in halide perovskites for improved thermoelectric performance, Nature Communications, 10(1):5750, 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13773-3
  • Liu T, Yue SY, Ratnasingham SR, Degousée T, Varsani PR, Briscoe J, McLachlan MA, Hu M, Fenwick O Unusual thermal boundary resistance in halide perovskites: A way to tune ultralow thermal conductivity for thermoelectrics, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2019 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b14174
  • Harzheim, A. et al. The role of metallic leads and electronic degeneracies in thermoelectric power generation in quantum dots. Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 13140, 2019. 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013140
  • Qiu M. and Baxendale M. Quantum-Tunneling Controlled Thermoelectricity in Polymers, Organic Electronics, 2019 10.1016/j.orgel.2019.105553
  • K. Kang, S. Schott, D. Venkateshvaran, K. Broch, G. Schweicher, D. Harkin, C. Jellett, C. B. Nielsen, I. McCulloch, H. Sirringhaus Investigation of the Thermoelectric Response in Conducting Polymers Doped by Solid-State Diffusiion, Mater. Today Phys., 8, 112–122, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2019.02.004
  • Wan K., Taroni P. J., Liu Z, Liu Y, Santagiuliana G, Hsia I-C, Zhang H, Fenwick O, Krause S, Baxendale M, Schroeder BC, Bilotti E, Flexible and Stretchable Self-Powered Multi-Sensors Based on the N-Type Thermoelectric Response of Polyurethane/Nax(Ni-ett)n Composites, Advanced Electronic Materials, 1900582, 2019.
  • Paleo AJ, Vieira EMF, Wan K, Bondarchuk O, Cerqueira MF, Goncalves LM, Bilotti E, Alpuim P and Rocha AM, Negative thermoelectric power of melt mixed vapor grown carbon nanofiber polypropylene composites, Carbon  150, 408-416, 2019.

2018

  • Burton MR, Liu T, McGetterick J, Mehraban S, Baker J, Pockett A, Fenwick O, Carnie MJ, Thin film Tin Selenide (SnSe) Thermoelectric Generators Exhibiting Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity, Advanced Materials, 2018, 1801357 10.1002/adma.201801357.
  • Taroni PJ, Santagiuliana G, Wan K, Calado P, Qiu M, Zhang H, Pugno NM, Palma M, Stingelin-Stutzman N, Heeney M, Fenwick O, Baxendale M, and Bilotti E Toward stretchable self-powered sensors based on the thermoelectric response of PEDOT:PSS/polyurethane blends, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 1704285. 10.1002/adfm.201704285
  • Harzheim, A. et al. Geometrically Enhanced Thermoelectric Effects in Graphene Nanoconstrictions. Nano Lett. 18, 7719–7725, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03406

2017

  • Bilotti E, Fenwick O, Schroeder BC, Baxendale M, Taroni Junior P, Degousee T, Liu Z (2017) In Comprehensive composite materials II Editors: Zweben CH, Beaumont PWR. 6: 408-430. DOI
  • Fenwick O and Orgiu E (2017). Non-conventional charge transport in organic semiconductors: magnetoresistance and thermoelectricity.  Molecular Systems Design and Engineering  47-56. 10.1039/c6me00079g
  • Cowen LM, Atoyo J, Carnie MJ, Baran D, and Schroeder BC (2017) . Organic Materials for Thermoelectric Energy Generation ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology vol. 6, (3) N3080-N3088. 10.1149/2.0121703jss

pre-2017

  • Li Y, Porwal H, Huang Z, Zhang H, Bilotti E and Peijs T (2016). Enhanced Thermal and Electrical Properties of Polystyrene-Graphene Nanofibers via Electrospinning. Journal of Nanomaterials  vol. 2016, 10.1155/2016/4624976
  • Taroni PJ, Hoces I, Stingelin N, Heeney M and Bilotti E (2014). Thermoelectric materials: A brief historical survey from metal junctions and inorganic semiconductors to organic polymers. Israel Journal of Chemistry  10.1002/ijch.201400037
  • Baxendale M, Lim KG, Amaratunga GAJ (2000) Thermoelectric power of aligned and randomly oriented carbon nanotubes Physical Review B, 61(19), 12705. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.12705