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Out of disorder comes electricity

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Nanostructured thermoelectric material breaks record for turning heat into electricity.

A scrambled-up material has broken the record for converting heat into electricity. Findings published today in Nature suggest that disorder may be the key to creating a new generation of energy-harvesting technologies1.

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  1. Biswas, K. et al. Nature 489, 414–418 (2012).

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Brumfiel, G. Out of disorder comes electricity. Nature (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.11445

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