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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Metasurfaces and other structured photonic environments can dramatically modify the absorption and/or light emission of semiconductors. However, the consequences of these changes on the temperature of the system are not well understood. The authors address this problem for colloidal nanocrystals and leverage their findings to convert light into ...
Hugo Kowalczyk +7 more
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Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Enhancing Power Output by Device Optimisation and Circuit Techniques [PDF]
, 2010 Energy harvesting; that is, harvesting small amounts of energy from environmental sources such as solar, air flow or vibrations using small-scale (≈1cm 3 ) devices, offers the prospect of powering portable electronic devices such as GPS receivers and
Worthington, Emma
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Utilização de dispositivos termoelétricos para geração de energia elétrica em nanosatélites [PDF]
, 2015 TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Campus Joinville. Engenharia Aeroespacial.O presente trabalho tem como proposta estudar a viabilidade em se utilizar geradores termoelétricos, para alimentar os subsistemas de um satélite.
Audiffred, Diego Bonkowski de La Sierra
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Co‐delivery of electrosprayed EDOT and oxidant enables bulk oxidative polymerization during layer‐by‐layer fabrication, creating stable, highly conductive 3D PEDOT structures. This Atomized Oxidative Polymerization (AOP) overcomes the surface deposition‐only and matrix‐limited conductivity of conventional Vapor Phase Polymerization (VPP) and PEDOT:PSS ...
Tazdik Patwary Plateau +2 more
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Additive fabrication and experimental validation of a lightweight thermoelectric generator
Scientific Reports, 2023 We develop a thermoelectric generator based on catalytic combustion and operating in the low power range (up to 10 W). Considering the target of small-scale thermoelectric generators, the additive technique was chosen as an enabling technology to ...
Carlo Fanciulli +7 more
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Energies, 2023 Submicron-structured films of thermoelectric materials, exhibiting an improved thermoelectric figure of merit, are reviewed, including methods of fabrication and characterization.
Zinovi Dashevsky +4 more
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Elasto-thermoelectric beam formulation for modeling thermoelectric devices [PDF]
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2017 The present paper provides a dynamic, non-linear and fully coupled Finite Element (FE) formulation based on the Timoshenko beam theory to study elasto-thermoelectric responses in thermoelectric devices. The two main motivations of this work are: i) to study mechanical responses in thermoelectric devices, which must be taken into account in
Palma Guerrero, Roberto +2 more
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Extending the functionality and efficiency of energy storage tanks in solar power plants [PDF]
, 2011 Improvements to the efficiency of Solar Power Plants are a key objective as the technology matures. Oneopportunity yet to be explored involves energy harvesting from hot components located within the powerplant, utilizing waste heat.
Sansom, Christopher L. +4 more
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Polymer‐Redox Interactions Enhance Ferro/Ferricyanide Thermogalvanic Cells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Polyelectrolyte could modify the hydration structure of the redox couple in solution and improve the output performance of thermogalvanic cells, providing new fundamental insight into how electrostatic interactions can be exploited to tailor thermoelectric properties.
Pedro Santos Candiotto de Oliveira +6 more
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