Dec
17
New World Record Set For Making Electricity From Heat
December 17, 2019 | 1 Comment
Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien,Vienna) scientists have now developed a completely new material with a ZT value of 5 to 6. It is so effective that it could be used to provide energy for sensors or even small computer processors. Thermoelectric materials convert heat into electrical energy. The amount of energy that can be […]
Oct
30
Thermoelectric Generators Get Pressure Added For Efficiency
October 30, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Carnegie Institution for Science researchers are reporting pressure improves the ability of thermoelectric materials to turn heat into electricity. The new information could potentially be used to create clean electricity generation. The report comes from a team that includes Carnegie’s Alexander Goncharov and Viktor Struzhkin with the paper published in Nature Materials. Compounds with […]
Jun
6
New research at the University of Warwick shows waste heat can be converted to electricity more efficiently using one-dimensional nanoscale materials as thin as an atom. This suggests there may be a new way of generating sustainable energy. Led by Drs. Andrij Vasylenko, Samuel Marks, Jeremy Sloan and David Quigley from Warwick’s Department of Physics, […]
May
31
Better Thermoelectric Materials Use A New Process
May 31, 2018 | 1 Comment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are using thermoelectric materials that when heated under high magnetic fields could produce record levels of energy. Improvements in thermoelectric materials – which spontaneously produce electricity when one side of the material is heated give rise to imagining being able to power your car partly from the heat that […]
Oct
6
Doubling Solar Absorbers More Than Doubles Energy Gain
October 6, 2016 | Leave a Comment
Researchers at the University of Houston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported a substantial advance in generating electricity through a combination of concentrating solar power and thermoelectric materials. The research group demonstrated an efficiency of 7.4 percent but reported that based upon their calculations, the device could achieve an efficiency of 9.6 percent. Their […]
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