Researchers have improved the efficiency of heat-to-electricity conversion in gallium arsenide semiconductor microstructures. By judicious spatial alignment of electrons within a two-dimensional ...

The material—the black blocks between the two plates, pictured here—could be used with cooking pots to charge phones or jewelry to power health sensors. Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of ...

A team of researchers has just made a major discovery in the field of thermoelectricity. Their work, published in Nature Physics, sheds light on a phenomenon predicted over a century ago. A ...

(Nanowerk News) Gang Chen's research with nano-scale materials gave him a head start in the field of nanotechnology when it was still brand new. Today, nano-materials, in which dimensions are measured ...

HOUSTON - (Sept. 8, 2020) - Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there's at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold. You just need a way to view these electron games. Using a novel ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of physicists in Clemson University’s College of Science and Academia Sinica in Taiwan has determined why other scientists have been unable to replicate a highly influential ...

Thermoelectric materials, which convert heat into electricity, are valuable tools for capturing waste heat and turning it into usable electricity. These materials are especially useful in industries ...

Recent advances in single-molecule thermoelectricity has isolated and identified different families of high-performance molecules. However, to realize the commercial potential of these molecules and ...

Converting heat directly into power could be a major source of renewable energy. A novel approach to study this so called thermoelectricity may help to design new materials that are highly efficient.

Research collaboration: Christian Doppler Laboratory for Thermoelectricity is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner institutions. Identify ...

The direct conversion of heat into electricity, or electricity into heat, is known as thermoelectricity. This conversion process is referred to as the Peltier-Seebeck effect. This effect is name after ...