Thermoelectric Clathrates

By George Nolas, Glen Slack

Cagelike crystals may soon help to pump heat with electricity and to create electricity with heat

Engineering Physics

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March-April 2001

Volume 89, Number 2
Page 136

DOI: 10.1511/2001.18.136

One of us works for a company that makes refrigerators—small ones. Actually, tiny ones: The largest is about the size of a postage stamp. These devices use no messy liquids or gases, have no moving parts and can reduce the temperature by as much as 150 degrees Celsius. Modern miracles? Not exactly.

Courtesy of Ernst Richter, DaimlerChrysler, and Madu Menon, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky

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