MIT researchers create a high-temperature device that produces electricity from industrial waste heat.
June 12, 2017Silvija Gradečak customizes nanoscale systems for large-scale impact in light and energy.
August 20, 2014Gang Chen’s thermoelectric devices turn waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other machines.
August 8, 2014New theory predicts magnets may act as wireless cooling agents.
July 28, 2014Electrochemical approach has potential to efficiently turn low-grade heat to electricity.
May 21, 2014New analysis explains why some materials are good thermal insulators while similar ones are not.
April 29, 2014Spectroscopy techniques demonstrate ballistic motion at micron length scales, open door to new possibilities for semiconductors, thermoelectrics.
January 6, 2014New approach could improve the efficiency of devices that harness power from temperature differences.
February 6, 2013New approach using nanoparticle alloys allows heat to be focused or reflected just like electromagnetic waves.
January 11, 2013Novel approach yields both electricity and heat.
December 13, 2012MIT researchers find that heat moving in materials called superlattices behaves like waves; finding could enable better thermoelectrics.
November 15, 2012NREL-MIT study shows an 80 percent renewable energy standard cuts water use in half.
June 18, 2012Thin films of bismuth-antimony have potential for new semiconductor chips, thermoelectric devices.
April 24, 2012New MIT design for a metamaterial could be far more efficient at capturing sunlight than existing solar cells.
March 9, 2012A new kind of high-temperature photonic crystal could someday power everything from smartphones to spacecraft.
February 3, 2012A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency.
January 11, 2012MIT researchers find a way to generate power without the usual mirror arrays.
December 2, 2011Finding could lead to new photodetectors or energy-harvesting devices.
October 7, 2011Turning temperature differences directly into electricity could be an efficient way of harnessing heat that is wasted in cars and power plants.
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