[Nanotechnology] – Something from nothing: Using waste heat to power electronics
22 février 2020
Collecting energy from environmental waste heat such as that lost from the human body is an attractive prospect to power small electronics sustainably. A thermocell is a type of energy-harvesting device that converts environmental heat into electricity through the thermal charging effect.
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[Thin-Films] – Brushing thin films onto electrodes preserves batteries
21 septembre 2023
The Rice University lab of chemist James Tour introduced a technique to tune the surface of anodes for batteries by simply brushing powders into them. The powder adheres to the anode and becomes a thin, lithiated coating that effectively prevents the formation of damaging dendrites.
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