Scientists from SANKEN (the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research) at Osaka University measured the thermal effects of ionic flow through a nanopore using a thermocouple. They found that under most conditions, both ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2022
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In recent years, a phenomenon called the quantum Hall effect has emerged as a platform for hosting exotic features called quasiparticles, with properties that could lead to exciting applications in areas like quantum computing. ...
Nanophysics
Jan 21, 2022
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Machines and electronic devices often generate waste heat that is difficult to utilize. If electricity could be generated from this waste heat, it would offer a means for a clean and sustainable power production: Such a technology ...
Nanophysics
Jan 18, 2022
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The UK is hosting the 26th annual UN climate summit in Glasgow. Boris Johnson's government boasts of having the most ambitious climate change targets in the world.
Environment
Nov 1, 2021
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In recent years, energy consumption in developed countries has been rather wasteful. Nearly two-thirds of the total energy is typically discarded as "waste heat," which ends up contributing to global warming. Finding a way ...
Materials Science
Oct 21, 2021
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When Roman launches in the mid-2020s, these devices will convert starlight into electrical signals, which ...
Astronomy
Jun 9, 2021
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Thermoelectric power generators that make electrical power from waste heat would be a useful tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if it weren't for a most vexing problem: The need to make electrical contacts to their hot ...
Materials Science
May 26, 2021
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Clothing, from tank tops to parkas, helps people adapt to temperatures outdoors. But you can only put on or take off so much of it, and fluctuations in weather can render what you are wearing entirely inadequate. In a new ...
Nanomaterials
May 5, 2021
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A wide variety of portable and wearable electronics have become a large part of our daily lives, so a group of Stanford University researchers wondered if these could be powered by harvesting electricity from the waste heat ...
Nanophysics
Apr 27, 2021
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Chinese scientists have proposed a highly reliable thermal power generator by combining thermoacoustic effect and triboelectric effect.
General Physics
Mar 26, 2021
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