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

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

Thermoelectric materials offer a promising way to produce electricity from heat, but scientists need a better understanding of these materials' properties and how to control them. Researchers used a ...

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

Preparation Central launches Edison-inspired thermoelectric device that plugs into standard outlets to harvest ambient heat, ...

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

While all materials demonstrate some thermoelectric effect, it is often too negligible to be useful. Materials exhibiting a high enough thermoelectric effect are usually so-called “degenerate ...

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

Researchers from Tokyo University of Science and Saitama University achieved the transverse thermoelectric effect (TTE) in the semimetal tungsten disilicide (WSi 2).Previous research had demonstrated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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