Body Heat Harvesting Wearable Patch Better than Batteries
There is a new hope for keeping wearable gadgets hooked as long as you like, without even minding of charging them.
An NSF sponsored nanoengineering...
Spin-Seebeck Effect Causing New Magnetic Semiconductor To Become Energy Harvester
A gallium manganese arsenide semiconductor may be the material to revolutionize how electronic circuits power and recycle their waste heat, through a research of Ohio State University scientists, led by Joseph Heremans and Roberto Myers, both from OSU.
Newly Discovered Nanoscale Structural Displacements Lead the Way to More Efficient Thermoelectrics
A team of scientists from important US research institutes such as the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northwestern University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, while studying lead chalcogenides (lead paired with tellurium, selenium or sulfur), have discovered how these behave at an atomic scale and how they could offer great thermoelectric properties.
Japanese Thermoelectric Modules Aim Reaching Record of 11% Efficiency
A new test will be performed by Showa Denko on Feb. 15, 2010. The thermoelectric device is designed to be attached to the exhaust pipe of a car and supply electricity to the car's air conditioner, thus improving the fuel mileage.
Ultrasound Technology Used to Fabricate Future's Best Thermoelectric Materials
By using a technology that is normally suited to cleaning jewelery, with common solvents, ultrasounds, and 1 milligram of layered material (such as graphite), Dr. Valeria Nicolosi, the collaborator from the University of Oxford says they can make "billions and billions of one-atom-thick nanosheets can be made at the same time from a wide variety of exotic layered materials."
Highly Mismatched Alloys – Solution for Really Efficient Thermoelectrics
Thermoelectric devices convert heat into electricity, and are of great use in recovering wasted heat from thermal engines and transforming it into electricity, thus increasing the engine's overall efficiency, mostly when used in hybrid cars, who have high capacity onboard batteries.
New Formula Speeds Up Development of Thermoelectric Materials
Identifying materials that have high potential for converting heat to electricity have just become much easier, as researchers from Houston University released a new...
Energy Dept: Geothermal Power Has “Enormous Untapped Potential”
A new report by the U.S. Department of Energy identifies geothermal energy — in which heat from beneath the Earth’s surface is used to...
Japanese Thermoelectric Generator Yields Record Efficiency
Nowadays we can notice that a lot of devices and objects we use daily are becoming smarter every day. We can see this trend...
Fire-Powered Wifi Router in a Stone Aims to Take You Online in the Wild
A Wi-Fi router embedded in a 1.5-ton rock and powered by fire could keep you connected even in the deepest of forests.
Wireless networks are everywhere...
