Converting Heat from Mobile Phones Back into Electricity

Silicon nanowires may lead the way to converting waste heat into electricity, according to research reported yesterday in the journal >Nature. Two separate teams, one at Caltech and the other at the University of California, Berkeley, reported that they could increase silicon's ability to convert heat into electric current by as much as 100 times.

The application could take surplus heat generated within mobile phones during use, or even from the human body when in standby and convert it to electricity.

[via Cellular News]

emily | 11:01 AM | Technology |
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