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IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
Monica Heger |
Thallium Doping Boosts Thermoelectrics Bad for people, but good for energy conversion   |
Technology Research News
June 1, 2005 |
Going Nano Boosts Thermoelectrics Thermoelectric materials take advantage of the temperature difference between a pair of materials that conduct electricity. Researchers have shown how a thermoelectric material should be designed to reach its maximum possible efficiency. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Neil Savage |
Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity Thermoelectric converters could tap waste heat from power plants and microchips. |
Chemistry World
January 9, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
A Silicon Surprise Two teams of US scientists have demonstrated silicon-based 'thermoelectric' materials that could convert waste heat back into electricity. |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Thermoelectrics doped for better performance Researchers have discovered how to boost the performance of lead telluride, a thermoelectric material that converts heat into electricity: just add thallium. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
Strano & Kalantar-Zadeh |
Nanodynamite Fuel-coated nanotubes could provide bursts of power to the smallest systems |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Neil Savage |
Random Nanostructure Boosts Thermoelectric Power Efficiency increase opens the door to many new applications for thermoelectric converters. |
Chemistry World
March 20, 2013
Harriet Brewerton |
Period heat source gives thermoelectric power a boost Scientists in the US have found a way to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric power generators -- devices designed to convert heat directly into electricity. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Thermoelectrics 'pass new milestone' Researchers in the US claim to have passed a new milestone in thermoelectrics with a material that converts heat to electricity more efficiently than ever before. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2010 |
Technology Would Power Cars with Auto Exhaust Developed by GM and Purdue University, system harvests heat from engine exhaust to generate electricity. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
Electricity at your fingertips Scientists in South Korea have made a conducting polymer as part of a thin-film thermoelectric device that can generate electricity from the temperature difference between your fingertips and the environment. |
Chemistry World
July 1, 2013
Rowan Frame |
Thermoelectric cost analysis Scientists from the US have derived a metric to analyze the cost of power generation using thermoelectric technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
Willie D. Jones |
Intel-led Team Demonstrates First Chip-Scale Thermoelectric Refrigerator An integrated thermoelectric device cools a hot spot on a much larger chip |
Chemistry World
April 2011 |
Waste Not, Want Not Modern devices waste a lot of energy as heat, noise and vibration. Here's a look at a new breed of energy scavenging materials that could recapture some of it. |
Chemistry World
May 3, 2011
James Urquhart |
Turning heat into electricity with polymers Swedish researchers have improved the thermoelectric efficiency of an organic conducting polymer by controlling the material's oxidation level, boosting the prospect of developing cheap, flexible and lightweight organic thermoelectric devices |
Technology Research News
August 27, 2003 |
Metal process makes heat chips Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have found a way to make tiny thermoelectric devices that can be used to generate electrical power from heat and to cool very small areas. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2011
Eliza Strickland |
Thermoelectrics Get Cooler Start-ups are advancing solid-state cooling systems |
Chemistry World
April 4, 2014
Charlotte Still |
Power up with body heat A thermoelectric generator that converts body heat into electricity could make replacing or recharging batteries in wearable electronics a task of the past. |
Technology Research News
October 6, 2004 |
Gas flow makes electricity Gas flows at speeds as low as a few meters per second over semiconductor materials and carbon nanotubes have produced electricity. The phenomenon could lead to small, inexpensive, accurate gas flow sensors in less than two years, according to the researchers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010 |
Microelectronics Thermal Management Device From Nextreme Meets MIL-STD 883 Shock Standard An advanced heat-pumping thermoelectric device for electronics thermal management from Nextreme Thermal Solutions has passed the 3000-G shock test as defined in the 2002 mechanical shock standard. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008 |
Nextreme Offers Electro-Optics and Microelectronics Cooler for Military Applications Nextreme Thermal Solutions is introducing the Ultra-High Packing Fraction (UPF) OptoCooler thermoelectric module for cooling and temperature-control requirements for electronics, medical, military, and aerospace applications. |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Organic Electricity Generator is Hot Stuff Researchers have successfully demonstrated the thermoelectric effect in an organic molecule. The findings open up the possibility of potential new energy sources, and also present a novel way for probing the electronic structure of molecular junctions. |
Technology Research News
August 13, 2003 |
Video keys off human heat Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed a method for segmenting out the human parts of a video stream that does not require a particular background. |
Technology Research News
October 6, 2004 |
Sound makes electricity for space A compact generator that converts heat to electricity with the relatively high efficiency of 18 percent is especially appropriate for generating electricity aboard spacecraft, according to the researchers. |
Chemistry World
September 2, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
New ceramic can handle the heat Researchers in the UK have created a new ceramic oxide with tunable thermal expansion: it can expand, contract or remain unchanged in response to heat depending upon the proportion of key components used to make it. |
Chemistry World
July 12, 2013
Matthew Smith |
Cobalt redox couple boosts thermoelectric cells Scientists in Australia have improved a technology that recycles waste heat into useable energy by using ionic liquids containing cobalt redox couples as the electrolytes in thermoelectric cells. |
Chemistry World
July 31, 2008
Kira Welter |
Cooler fuel cells Solid oxide fuel cells, which generate electricity at around 700 C, may be able to operate at room temperature - thanks to a new layered material that is remarkably efficient at conducting oxygen ions. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
IBM to Chips: Cool It! Big Blue's new chip-cooling technique could keep Moore's Law on track. IBM's system, while not yet ready for commercial production, is reportedly so efficient that officials expect it will double cooling efficiency. |
Food Engineering
January 9, 2006 |
Salinity meter Waterproof, handheld, non-glass meter measures conductivity, TDS, salinity and temperature. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
Terminator-style self-healing robot skin moves closer to reality Synthetic skin for robots that can repair itself when it becomes damaged -- akin to the idea of the T-800 cyborg in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator films -- has taken a step closer to reality with new research by scientists in the US. |
