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Phononic Devices, Inc. (Cary, NC) in partnership with the University of Oklahoma,
the University of California Santa Cruz, and the California Institute of Technology,
will develop a completely new class of high efficiency thermoelectric devices and
materials that combine enhanced Seebeck thermopower with thermally insulating
semiconductor materials to increase solid state thermal-to-electric conversion
efficiencies to unprecedented levels. WiIth greater than 60% of all U.S. energy
lost in the form of waste heat from power plants, industrial processes, and vehicles,
this high efficiency new thermoelectrics technology holds great promise to
enable the U.S. to tap into this vast hidden energy resource to drastically
reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
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Harvesting
Low Quality Heat Using Economically Printed Flexible Nanostructured Stacked
Thermoelectric Junctions
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Urbana, IL), in collaboration
with MC10, Inc., will develop an economic and highly scalable non-lithographic
approach to fabricate large area arrays of 1-D concentric silicon nanotubes for low
cost thermoelectric devices. This low cost, earth abundant, flexible new thermoelectric
technology holds great promise to allow the U.S. to begin to harvest the more
than 60% of its energy that it loses in the form of waste heat, providing an
opportunity to drastically reduce U.S. energy waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
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