Dec

27

Converting Heat Directly Into Electricity

December 27, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Ohio State University researchers have figured out how to convert heat into electricity in a form more suitable for industry. This is the research group that pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity. The engineers describe in Nature Communications how they used magnetism on a composite of nickel and […]

Nov

19

A New Process Could Revolutionize Solar Energy Harvesting

November 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at the Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory and Mons have investigated a process in which the initial photonic electronic excitation can split into a pair of half-energy excitations. The phenomenon can happen in certain organic molecules when the quantum mechanical effect of electron spin sets the initial spin ‘singlet’ state to be double the energy of […]

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