{"id":116822,"date":"2020-12-08T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/researchers-call-for-renewed-focus-on-thermoelectric-cooling"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:15:55","slug":"researchers-call-for-renewed-focus-on-thermoelectric-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/researchers-call-for-renewed-focus-on-thermoelectric-cooling","title":{"rendered":"Researchers call for renewed focus on thermoelectric cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-call-for-renewed-focus-on-thermoelectric-cooling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost 200 years after French physicist Jean Peltier discovered that electric current flowing through the junction of two different metals could be used to produce a heating or cooling effect, scientists continue to search for new thermoelectric materials that can be used for power generation.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers writing in <i>Nature Materials<\/i>, however, say it is time to step up efforts to find <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new materials<\/a> for thermoelectric cooling.<\/p>\n<p>Bismuth tellurium compounds have been used for thermoelectric cooling for more than 60 years, and the researchers say the fact that there is already a commercial demand for the technology suggests better materials can expand the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 200 years after French physicist Jean Peltier discovered that electric current flowing through the junction of two different metals could be used to produce a heating or cooling effect, scientists continue to search for new thermoelectric materials that can be used for power generation. Researchers writing in Nature Materials, however, say it is time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116822","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}