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Researchers devise method to suppress thermal conductivity to improve thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery

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Led by scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London, the team conducted a series of experiments on crystals of sodium cobaltate grown in the University’s Department of Physics. Goff (2013) Suppression of thermal conductivity by rattling modes in thermoelectric sodium cobaltate. —Voneshen et al. Borissenko, M. Piovano, E.

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