{"id":236125,"date":"2026-04-29T06:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ai-slashes-the-time-needed-to-design-better-heat-harvesting-devices"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:17:35","slug":"ai-slashes-the-time-needed-to-design-better-heat-harvesting-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ai-slashes-the-time-needed-to-design-better-heat-harvesting-devices","title":{"rendered":"AI slashes the time needed to design better heat-harvesting devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-slashes-the-time-needed-to-design-better-heat-harvesting-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From wearable technology to industrial heat recovery, thermoelectric generators which convert waste heat into electricity have an enormous range of potential applications. So far, however, designing high-performing versions of these devices has remained a painstaking task.<\/p>\n<p>Now, through new research published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10223-1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature<\/i><\/a>, Airan Li and colleagues at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan have developed an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-08-straight-applications-automated-protocol-thermoelectric.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">AI-based tool<\/a> that predicts device performance with greater than 99% accuracy, all while cutting computational time by around 10,000-fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From wearable technology to industrial heat recovery, thermoelectric generators which convert waste heat into electricity have an enormous range of potential applications. So far, however, designing high-performing versions of these devices has remained a painstaking task. Now, through new research published in Nature, Airan Li and colleagues at the National Institute for Materials Science in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236125","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=236125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}