The thermoelectric properties of parallel arrays of organic molecules on a surface offer the potential for large-area, flexible, solution processed, energy harvesting thin-films, whose room-temperature transport properties are controlled by...

A major potential advantage of creating thermoelectric devices using self-assembled molecular layers is their mechanical flexibility.

If the Seebeck coefficient of single molecules or self-assembled monolayers could be predicted from measurements of their conductance–voltage (G–V) characteristics alone, then the difficult experimental task of measuring their thermoelectric properties could be avoided.

Correction for ‘Molecular-scale thermoelectricity: as simple as ‘ABC’’ by Ali Ismael et al., Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 5329–5334, DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00772B.