{"id":121697,"date":"2021-04-18T01:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/thermoelectric-material-discovery-sets-stage-for-new-forms-of-electric-power-in-the-future"},"modified":"2021-04-18T01:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T08:22:19","slug":"thermoelectric-material-discovery-sets-stage-for-new-forms-of-electric-power-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/thermoelectric-material-discovery-sets-stage-for-new-forms-of-electric-power-in-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Thermoelectric material discovery sets stage for new forms of electric power in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thermoelectric-material-discovery-sets-stage-for-new-forms-of-electric-power-in-the-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thermoelectrics directly convert heat into electricity and power a wide array of items\u2014from NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover currently exploring Mars to travel coolers that chill beverages.<\/p>\n<p>A Clemson University physicist has joined forces with collaborators from China and Denmark to create a new and potentially paradigm-shifting high-performance thermoelectric compound.<\/p>\n<p>A material\u2019s atomic structure, which is how atoms arrange themselves in space and time, determines its properties. Typically, solids are crystalline or amorphous. In crystals, atoms are in an orderly and symmetrical pattern. Amorphous materials have randomly distributed atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermoelectrics directly convert heat into electricity and power a wide array of items\u2014from NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover currently exploring Mars to travel coolers that chill beverages. A Clemson University physicist has joined forces with collaborators from China and Denmark to create a new and potentially paradigm-shifting high-performance thermoelectric compound. A material\u2019s atomic structure, which is how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121697","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}