{"id":218749,"date":"2025-07-26T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/physicists-identify-antiferromagnet-with-high-heat-to-electricity-conversion-efficiency"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:05:41","slug":"physicists-identify-antiferromagnet-with-high-heat-to-electricity-conversion-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/physicists-identify-antiferromagnet-with-high-heat-to-electricity-conversion-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Physicists identify antiferromagnet with high heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-identify-antiferromagnet-with-high-heat-to-electricity-conversion-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIKEN physicists have found a magnetic material that converts heat into electricity with high efficiency, making it promising for use in energy-harvesting devices. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-57320-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Photos you take on your smartphone are saved as a series of zeros and ones in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ferromagnetic+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ferromagnetic material <\/a>\u2014magnetic materials that resemble iron in that their magnetic moments all point in the same direction.<\/p>\n<p>Ferromagnets are easy to manipulate, making it easy to save data. However, because their magnetic moments are all aligned, they generate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/strong+magnetic+fields\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">strong magnetic fields<\/a>, and so it is not possible to cram a lot of them into a small space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIKEN physicists have found a magnetic material that converts heat into electricity with high efficiency, making it promising for use in energy-harvesting devices. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications. Photos you take on your smartphone are saved as a series of zeros and ones in a ferromagnetic material \u2014magnetic materials that resemble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218749","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=218749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}