Move Over Noisy Compressors, Phononic’s Thermoelectric Heat Pump is Here
A quiet energy efficient fridge, coffee table that can chill drinks, radiant on-demand temperature control for rooms. All this could become reality with large...
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.
Louisiana Professor Uses Piezoelectric Material and Carbon Nanotubes to Recover Lost Heat
A Louisiana Tech University professor, dr. Long Que, has designed and prototyped a composite material that converts heat into electricity by using simple physical mechanisms found in piezoelectric materials and carbon nanotubes.
Solar Thermoelectric Device Harnesses Sun's Heat, Transforms Directly Into Electricity
A new material that could one day change the efficiency of thermal solar panels has been invented by MIT and Boston College researchers, with collaborators from GMZ Energy. The thermoelectric device is at least eight times more efficient than what's currently available in labs.
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.
Discovery: Clathrates Thermoelectric Materials Offer Better Efficiency
Some researchers from the University of Ã…rhus, Denmark, have studied promising thermoelectric materials from the group or clathrates, which create crystals full of 'nano-cages'.
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.
New MIT Thermoelectric Device Pushes Efficiency to Its Theoretical Limit
The Carnot Limit, calculated in the 19th century, demonstrates and sets the maximum efficiency that any device can achieve in converting heat into work. Theoretically and practically, you can't go over that limit. So, the devices constructed up to now only get a tenth of Carnot's limit.
Both Light And Heat Harvested by New Device from Fujitsu
Solar panels harvest light and thermoelectric devices harvest the heat - but recently, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have developed a blend of both: a power-generating device that can convert both light and temperature difference into an electric current.
