{"id":211881,"date":"2025-04-19T21:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-hybrid-materials-boost-energy-conversion-by-100-percent"},"modified":"2025-04-19T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:29:06","slug":"new-hybrid-materials-boost-energy-conversion-by-100-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-hybrid-materials-boost-energy-conversion-by-100-percent","title":{"rendered":"New hybrid materials boost energy conversion by 100 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xG7n0dl5I60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn solid matter, heat is transferred both by mobile charge carriers and by vibrations of the atoms in the crystal lattice,\u201d Garmroudi says, emphasizing that researchers have devised advanced techniques to engineer thermoelectric materials with exceptionally low <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xometry.com\/resources\/materials\/thermal-conductivity\/#:~:text=Materials%20with%20low%20thermal%20conductivity, conductivity%20can%20change%20with%20temperature.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thermal conductivity<\/a> over the past few decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn thermoelectric materials, we mainly try to suppress heat transport through the lattice vibrations, as they do not contribute to energy conversion,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Garmroudi recalls developing the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/materials-science\/hybrid-material#:~:text=Hybrid%20materials%20are%20defined%20as, materials%20result%20in%20different%20properties.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hybrid materials<\/a> during his research stay in Tsukuba, Japan, supported by the Lions Award and carried out at the National Institute for Materials Science as part of his work at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn solid matter, heat is transferred both by mobile charge carriers and by vibrations of the atoms in the crystal lattice,\u201d Garmroudi says, emphasizing that researchers have devised advanced techniques to engineer thermoelectric materials with exceptionally low thermal conductivity over the past few decades. \u201cIn thermoelectric materials, we mainly try to suppress heat transport through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211881","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=211881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}