Treating Heat Just Like Light Yields New Thermoelectric Applications

New research coming from MIT’s Department of Materials science and engineering, reveals a technique that allows manipulation of heat so that it can be...

Energy-Saving Thermoelectric Material Made From Dirt

A team of researchers at Michigan State University have developed a new type of thermoelectric material by using common materials found in dirt. The...

Fraunhofer Team Invents Printed Thermoelectric Device

At the Electronica trade fair in Munich (13 – 16 November), researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in...

New Hybrid Thermoelectric-Photovoltaic Device Demonstrated at UTA

For decades, photovoltaic devices have generated electricity directly from sunlight. Thermoelectric devices generate electricity from heat energy. Both devices have found their way into...
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Practical Thermoelectric Power Possible with Newly Invented Material

Energy efficiency, that is, the amount of usable energy in a given fuel, is based off a number of factors. Hydrocarbon fuels, for example,...

Thermoelectric Generator: How to Build One

A thermoelectric generator is a semiconductor device that transforms the heat difference between its two layers into electricity. It belongs to a class of materials called...

New Carbon Nanotube-Based Thermoelectric Material Could Be a Game Changer

A new thermoelectric material has been invented at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at wake Forest University. It's been called Power Felt,...

MIT Researchers Invent Solar Cells That Transform Heat Into Electricity

If you thought photovoltaics can only get energy from the Sun, then you were wrong. An MIT team of researchers have invented a device that produces electricity from heat. The process uses the photovoltaic effect as the middleman and is three times more efficient than the most efficient lithium ion batteries on market today.

New Multiferroic Alloy Magnetizes When Heated, Transforms Waste Heat Into Electricity

A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has discovered a new alloy that can transform heat into electricity. The approach is new and uses a coil to transform the magnetic field generated by the alloy.

Thermoelectric Phone Charger Provides Electricity From Camp Fire

Hatsuden-Nabe is the name of a device that can charge up your cellphone by using wasted heat. It's available in Japan since yesterday and it surely attracts a lot of hikers and adventurers, who think this could save their lonesome journeys.