Research project

Flexible Hybrid Thermoelectric Materials

Research groups:

Smart Electronic Materials and Systems

Electrochemistry
Lead researchers:

Dr Iris Nandhakumar
Other researchers:

Professor Stephen Beeby
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Iris Nandhakumar

Associate Professor

Research interests

Scanning Probe Microscopy
Carbon nanotubes
Nanoscale materials

Connect with Iris

Email: iris@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Stephen Beeby PhD, FIEEE, FInstP, FIET, CEng, CPhys

Professor of Electronic Systems & Device

Research interests

Electronic Textiles
Flexible Electronics
Smart Materials

Connect with Stephen

Email: spb@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

3D nanowire Pt catalysts with enhanced stability for the oxygen reduction reaction

Joshua S. White, Wanli Liu, Samuel C. Perry, Samina Akbar, Diego Alba-Venero, Nicholas J. Terrill, Adam Squires & Iris Nandhakumar, 2025, ACS Omega, 10(8), 8082-8088

DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c06385

Type: article

Thermoelectric property enhancement of tellurium nanowires by surface passivation

Syed Zulfiqar Hussain Shah, Zainul Aabdin, Weng Weei Tjiu, Wei Nong, Jose Recatala Gomez, Vijila Chellappan, Wenhao Zhai, Repaka Durga Venkata Maheswar, Gang Wu, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Iris S. Nandhakumar & Pawan Kumar, 2024, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(35), 46191-46199

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c02469

Type: article

Oxidation control to augment interfacial charge transport in Te- P3HT hybrid materials for high thermoelectric performance

Syed Zulfiqar Hussain Shah, Zhenyu Ding, Zainul Aabdin, Weng Weei Tjiu, Jose Recatala Gomez, Haiwen Dai, Xiaoping Yang, Repaka Durga Venkata Maheswar, Gang Wu, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Iris S. Nandhakumar & Pawan Kumar, 2024, Advanced Science, 11(35)

DOI: 10.1002/advs.202400802

Type: article

Flexible Thermoelectric Energy Generators for E-textiles

2023

Type: thesis

Template-free electrochemical deposition of tellurium nanowires with eutectic solvents

Samuel C. Perry, Joshua White & Iris Nandhakumar, 2023, Electrochimica Acta, 439

DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141674

Type: article

Electroless deposition of tellurium nanowires in eutectic solvents using immobilised silver islands

Samuel C. Perry, Joshua White & Iris Nandhakumar, 2022, RSC Advances, 12(55), 35938-35942

DOI: 10.1039/D2RA06356E