Vanderbilt/ORNL team discovers new form of crystalline order that could be attractive for thermoelectric applications
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
The discovery of materials with improved thermoelectric efficiency could increase the efficiency of electrical power generation, improve automobile mileage and reduce the cost of air conditioning. For example, if you put a pair of carbon atoms at each point (forming two FCC sub-lattices), you get diamond. CIS is a bit more complicated.
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