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...
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."
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.
