Ancient effect harnessed to produce electricity from waste heat
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 13:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A phenomenon first observed by an ancient Greek philosopher 2,300 years ago has become the basis for a new device designed to harvest the enormous amounts of energy wasted as heat each year to produce electricity. The first-of-its-kind "pyroelectric nanogenerator" is the topic of a report in ACS' journal Nano Letters.