A 15-year-old Canadian student built a battery-free flashlight that uses the temperature difference between a warm human palm ...

Flexible electronics (FEs) have the potential to endow objects with the virtues and functionalities of electronics. The key is transferring manufactured FEs from original rigid substrates and printing ...

Flexible thermoelectric generators can directly convert low-grade thermal energy available in daily life into electricity, offering a promising ...

From wearable technology to industrial heat recovery, thermoelectric generators which convert waste heat into electricity have an enormous range of potential applications. So far, however, designing ...

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Thermoelectric generators convert heat directly into electricity and are widely studied for waste-heat recovery. Their performance depends not only on intrinsic material properties, but also on how ...

A breakthrough from the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows how future smartwatches and wearables may be powered entirely by the user's own skin. As detailed in the academic paper (via Science), the ...

Study: Unveiling InTe for flexible thermoelectric applications with enhanced performance via Bi/Se co-doping and MnO2 integration. Image Credit: luchschenF/Shutterstock.com The research, published in ...

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The Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural sciences, health sciences, applied sciences and social sciences, according to their ...

Researchers from China and United Arab Emirates tested a photovoltaic-thermoelectric generator module performance in the receiving end of a laser wireless power transmission system. Under varied ...

Backup generators are gaining a new lease on life in data centers. For decades, they have been a rarely used part of the infrastructure, existing for those moments when other power sources fail. But ...