Nanotechnology Boosts Conductor Efficiency

Researchers have found a way to conduct electricity with less heat–a major engineering breakthrough.

A collaboration between teams at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College found that by crushing a widely used semiconductor material into nanoparticles, the reconstituted material gives a 40% improvement in thermoelectric efficiency.

GMZ Energy a startup company, led by two of the researchers, has licensed the technology, which  has the potential to create more efficient refrigerators, solar power plants and other devices.

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