Electricity can be easily converted into heat—every electric cooker does it. But is the opposite also possible? Can heat be ...

Seebeck effect-based thermoelectric technologies capable of converting waste heat and other heat sources into electricity have been extensively researched in recent years.

In joint research with The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and Nagoya University, the National Institute for Materials Science ...

The Seebeck effect (part of the broader thermoelectric effect) is how a difference in temperature can be directly converted into a voltage, ...

To achieve the large transverse thermoelectric effect, the team first constructed a theoretical model and estimated the optimal thickness ratio between the paired thermoelectric silicon ...

A trio of physicists at Sorbonne Université, in France, has observed a thermoelectric effect between two liquid materials for the first time. In their study, published in Proceedings of the ...

The effect is usually seen at solid interfaces between electrical conductors or semiconductors or between solids and liquids. “Some very unusual behaviours” In the latest work, however, a team led by ...

Researchers have discovered a giant thermoelectric effect in an antiferromagnet. The study shows, surprisingly, that antiferromagnets can have the same value of the anomalous Nernst effect as ...

Researchers say the remarkable new textile technology converts body heat into electricity through thermoelectric effects, ...

University of Arizona researchers predict an enormous order-dependent quantum enhancement of thermoelectric effects in the vicinity of a higher-order ‘supernode’ in the transmission spectrum of a ...

The thermoelectric effect offers several advantages over other energy-harvesting technologies. Thermoelectric conversion operates silently, without mechanical components, and is highly reliable. It is ...

A team of scientists from Japan has created a new magnetic material that can turn heat into electricity more efficiently than ...