Rapid, localized heat management is essential for electronic devices and could have applications ranging from wearable materials to burn treatment. While so-called thermoelectric materials convert ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Revival of Thermoelectricity ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 199 No. 5 (November 1958), p. 31 doi:10.1038 ...

An obvious application of thermoelectricity is electrical refrigeration ... depending on the type of conducting material used and the temperature range of operation. Commercial Peltier coolers ...

When we say “ material properties”, we generally refer either to an “effect”, (such as magnetism, semiconductivity, superconductivity, thermoelectricity, piezoelectricity, etc.), or to a ...