A team led by Dr Ole Martin Løvvik of Oslo University’s Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology in Norway has found a way of making cheap thermoelectric materials that could harvest waste heat from a range of scenarios. However, attempts to bring the technology into the mainstream, in order to harvest waste heat from industrial and everyday scenarios, have been limited … [Read more...]
Nanocomposite Approach Enhances Thermoelectric Materials
Thermoelectric materials hold great promise for turning waste heat back into useful power and are touted for use in hybrid cars, new and efficient refrigerators, and other cooling or heating applications. However, they are very inefficient so researchers have to find ways of boosting the performance of thermoelectric materials by separating the electrical and thermal … [Read more...]
