Dirt material converts waste heat directly to electricity

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Agencies: London, Nov 29 2012, 18:08 IST
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elements, and then recombine those elements into new compounds that you anticipate will have good thermoelectric properties. But that process costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time.

Our method bypasses much of that," Morelli said.

The MSU researchers' method involves the use of very common materials, grinding them to a powder, then using pressure and heat to compress into usable sizes.

"It saves tremendously in terms of processing costs," Morelli added. The research was published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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