Bismuth telluride Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 25 May 2011 16:26:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 BMW, Ford, GM to Test Thermoelectric Devices on Real Cars This Summer https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-gm-ford-thermoelectric-20110525/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-gm-ford-thermoelectric-20110525/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 16:26:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18806 Thermoelectric materials are used to convert heat into electricity. These devices have applicability in all kinds of industries and machinery, ranging from cars to coal-fired power plants. The world's greatest automobile manufacturers, BMW, Ford and GM have committed themselves to equip test cars with prototype thermoelectric devices by the end of this summer and see how they'll behave.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bmw-gm-ford-thermoelectric-20110525/feed/ 1 18806 Ultrasound Technology Used to Fabricate Future's Best Thermoelectric Materials https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ultrasound-thermoelectric-crann-20110204/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ultrasound-thermoelectric-crann-20110204/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:54:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17003 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."

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