New Textile Unravels Warmth-Trapping Secrets of Polar Bear Furby University of Massachusetts AmherstTeam of engineers invents bilayered fabric, 30 percent lighter than cotton and far warmer
NewsA New Way to Cool Electronic Devices, Recover Waste Heatby American Chemical SocietyScientists have created a hydrogel that successfully cooled a cell phone battery while converting the excess heat into electricity
NewsNew Berkeley Lab Project Turns Waste Heat to Electricityby Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryLab to work with Alphabet Energy to develop a low-cost thermoelectric system
News‘Molecular Accordion’ Drives Thermoelectric Behavior in Promising Materialby Oak Ridge National LaboratoryNew understanding may aid research in energy sustainability and enable the design of materials that efficiently convert heat into electricity
Researcher Aims to Use Waste Heat to Make Cars More Efficientby Boise State UniversityYanliang Zhang wants to make vehicles more efficient by using a resource most people aren’t even aware of — the waste heat that results from the inherent inefficiency of engines when converting fuel into energy.
Research Creates New Opportunities from Waste Heatby University of HoustonUH physicists find a compound to more efficiently convert waste heat to electrical power.