{"id":113100,"date":"2020-09-16T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/boundaries-no-barrier-for-thermoelectricity"},"modified":"2020-09-16T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T23:49:20","slug":"boundaries-no-barrier-for-thermoelectricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/boundaries-no-barrier-for-thermoelectricity","title":{"rendered":"Boundaries no barrier for thermoelectricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boundaries-no-barrier-for-thermoelectricity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there\u2019s at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold.<\/p>\n<p>You just need a way to view these electron games.<\/p>\n<p>Using a novel optical detection system, researchers at Rice University found that electricity generated by temperature differences doesn\u2019t appear to be affected measurably by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/grain+boundaries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">grain boundaries<\/a> placed in its way in nanoscale gold wires, while strain and other defects in the material can change this \u201cthermoelectric\u201d response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there\u2019s at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold. You just need a way to view these electron games. Using a novel optical detection system, researchers at Rice University found that electricity generated by temperature differences doesn\u2019t appear to be affected measurably by grain boundaries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}