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  • McCall MacBain Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University
The Curiosity Mars rover, launched in November 2011, is powered by a nuclear battery that relies on thermoelectric materials to turn heat from radioactive decay into electricity. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

A new approach finds materials that can turn waste heat into electricity

Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, McMaster University

More than two-thirds of the world’s energy is wasted as heat. Thermoelectric materials can convert unwanted heat into electricity, but finding the best ones has been slow.

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