{"id":243703,"date":"2026-09-05T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/embedded-platinum-channels-bring-nanoscale-spin-based-thermoelectric-conversion-to-bulk-materials"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:25:47","slug":"embedded-platinum-channels-bring-nanoscale-spin-based-thermoelectric-conversion-to-bulk-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/embedded-platinum-channels-bring-nanoscale-spin-based-thermoelectric-conversion-to-bulk-materials","title":{"rendered":"Embedded platinum channels bring nanoscale spin-based thermoelectric conversion to bulk materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/embedded-platinum-channels-bring-nanoscale-spin-based-thermoelectric-conversion-to-bulk-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joint research team from NIMS and the University of Tokyo has developed a new composite in which three-dimensional nano-interfaces are distributed throughout the material by coating the surfaces of magnetic-insulator powders with a metal and sintering them. Using this structure, the team succeeded in observing thermoelectric conversion driven by spins in an insulator, a phenomenon previously observed only at nanoscale thin-film interfaces, in a macroscale material.<\/p>\n<p>This research was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-75232-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Thermoelectric conversion, which uses the vast amounts of waste heat and unused heat around us as electrical energy, is one of the key technologies for improving energy-use efficiency and achieving carbon neutrality. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-04-spintronics-material-magnetic-properties-current.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">spin Seebeck effect<\/a> is a physical phenomenon discovered in Japan in 2008 in which applying a temperature gradient to a magnetic material enables thermoelectric conversion via spin currents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint research team from NIMS and the University of Tokyo has developed a new composite in which three-dimensional nano-interfaces are distributed throughout the material by coating the surfaces of magnetic-insulator powders with a metal and sintering them. Using this structure, the team succeeded in observing thermoelectric conversion driven by spins in an insulator, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243703","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=243703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}