Researchers Generate Electricity With Nanoparticles

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, Science

A research team headed by Arun Majumdar of the University of California at Berkeley has successfully created energy by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles. At this time, approximately 90% of our electricity is created by fossil fuels which is converted to heat, some of which is wasted. This technology could help to make new energy sources and less expensive appliances.

For the last 50 years, scientists have been developing thermoelectric converters to alter heat more directly, based on the Seebeck effect in which 2 metals kept at different temperatures respond to that difference and generate electricity. Although we are not all together sure of all the techno babel, we look forward to having our iPod nanos “nanoized.”

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