UM physicist and collaborators provide new insight into
thermoelectric materials that may boost green technologies.
Thermoelectric materials can turn a temperature difference
into an electric voltage. Among their uses in a variety of specialized
applications: generating power on space probes and cooling seats in fancy cars.
University of Miami physicist Joshua Cohn and his
collaborators report new surprising properties of a metal named lithium
purple-bronze (LiPB) that may impact the search for materials useful in power
generation, refrigeration, or energy detection. The findings are published in
the journal Physical Review Letters.