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Northwestern: New Material Offers Ecofriendly Solution to Converting Waste Heat Into Energy
August 03, 2021
EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 3 (TNSJou) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release:

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Purified tin selenide has extraordinarily high thermoelectric performance

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Perseverance, NASA's 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to useful electricity.

On Mars, the heat source is the radioactive decay of plutonium, and the device's . . .

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