{"id":212208,"date":"2025-04-23T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-crystal-clear-design-for-high-performance-flexible-thermoelectric-semiconductors"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:08:48","slug":"a-crystal-clear-design-for-high-performance-flexible-thermoelectric-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-crystal-clear-design-for-high-performance-flexible-thermoelectric-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"A crystal clear design for high-performance flexible thermoelectric semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-crystal-clear-design-for-high-performance-flexible-thermoelectric-semiconductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>QUT researchers have identified a new material which could be used as a flexible semiconductor in wearable devices by using a technique that focuses on the manipulation of spaces between atoms in crystals.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58104-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communication<\/i>, the researchers used \u201cvacancy engineering\u201d to enhance the ability of an AgCu(Te, Se, S) semiconductor, which is an alloy made up of silver, copper, tellurium, selenium and sulfur, to convert body heat into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Vacancy engineering is the study and manipulation of empty spaces, or \u201cvacancies,\u201d in a crystal where atoms are missing, to influence the material\u2019s properties, such as improving its mechanical properties or optimizing its electrical conductivity, or thermal properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT researchers have identified a new material which could be used as a flexible semiconductor in wearable devices by using a technique that focuses on the manipulation of spaces between atoms in crystals. In a study published in Nature Communication, the researchers used \u201cvacancy engineering\u201d to enhance the ability of an AgCu(Te, Se, S) semiconductor, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212208","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}