{"id":221111,"date":"2025-08-29T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/tiny-defects-deliver-big-gains-controlling-oxygen-vacancies-boosts-thermoelectric-efficiency-by-91"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:06:52","slug":"tiny-defects-deliver-big-gains-controlling-oxygen-vacancies-boosts-thermoelectric-efficiency-by-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/tiny-defects-deliver-big-gains-controlling-oxygen-vacancies-boosts-thermoelectric-efficiency-by-91","title":{"rendered":"Tiny defects deliver big gains: Controlling oxygen vacancies boosts thermoelectric efficiency by 91%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-defects-deliver-big-gains-controlling-oxygen-vacancies-boosts-thermoelectric-efficiency-by-912.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has dramatically enhanced the efficiency of converting heat into electricity. The key lies in controlling tiny defects known as oxygen vacancies.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.202502892\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> as a front cover article in the journal <i>Advanced Science<\/i>. The team was led by Professor Hyungyu Jin and Dr. Min Young Kim from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH, in collaboration with Professors Donghwa Lee and Si-Young Choi from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor Joseph P. Heremans from the Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>Each day, enormous amounts of heat are lost around us: hot steam from factory chimneys, heat from car engines, and even the warmth generated by smartphones and computers. This <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/waste+heat\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">waste heat<\/a> is typically left unused, but if it could be converted back into electricity, it would offer a powerful solution to both energy inefficiency and environmental challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has dramatically enhanced the efficiency of converting heat into electricity. The key lies in controlling tiny defects known as oxygen vacancies. Their findings were published as a front cover article in the journal Advanced Science. The team was led by Professor Hyungyu Jin and Dr. Min Young Kim from the Department of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221111","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=221111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}