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Photothermal investigations of phase transitions in liquid thermoelectrics

Application to dodecanol mixed with tetrabutylammonium nitrate

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Two photothermal techniques, the photothermoelectric (PTE) and the photopyroelectric (PPE) were applied to detect first-order phase transitions in some liquid thermoelectric (LTE) material. Due to its large Seebeck coefficient (about 4–5 mV K−1), a LTE based on dodecanol mixed with 10−1 mol L−1 tetrabutylammonium nitrate was selected for investigations. If the PPE method was already largely used to detect phase transitions in various materials belonging to condensed matter, the Seebeck effect, produced by a LTE, is used for the first time as a tool for the detection of phase transitions in the very same material. It was demonstrated that both methods are suitable to detect the first-order phase transitions in LTE materials, but in the case of PTE method the electrical and thermal effects at the phase transition can not be separated, and consequently, it is not possible to derive the critical behavior of the thermal parameters. However, the behavior of the static volume specific heat and dynamic thermal diffusivity, effusivity and conductivity of the investigated LTE could be obtained by using the PPE method in back detection configuration.

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This work was financially supported by Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, through the Core Program (Program Nucleu), Project No. PN 19 35 02 01.

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  1. National R&D Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Donat Str. 67-103, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    C. Tripon, I. Craciunescu, V. Tosa & D. Dadarlat

  2. Univ. Lille Nord de France, 59000, Lille, France

    M. Depriester & A. Hadj Sahraoui

  3. ULCO, UDSMM, 59140, Dunkirk, France

    M. Depriester & A. Hadj Sahraoui

  4. Unité de Dynamique et Structure des Materiaux Moléculaires, EA4476, 59140, Dunkirk, France

    M. Depriester & A. Hadj Sahraoui

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Tripon, C., Depriester, M., Craciunescu, I. et al. Photothermal investigations of phase transitions in liquid thermoelectrics. J Therm Anal Calorim 138, 713–720 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-08133-8

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