Mohammad Malakooti has a look in his eye — like a man who wants to break something. “We are going to actually go to 700% to make sure it’s going to break,” he said. “You know, sometimes we need to ...

The textile industry is witnessing a revolutionary shift with the advent of smart fabrics capable of generating power from ...

The prototype delivered 13 per cent conversion efficiency, which, in simple terms, meant that with the prototype, for every ...

A new thermogalvanic device uses nanoparticles to control ion flow, allowing it to convert waste heat to electricity and store the energy without external batteries.

The energy created when a substance transitions from a solid, liquid, or gas to another state has been used to generate electricity by scientists at the University of Tokyo. This accomplishment will ...

RIKEN physicists have found a magnetic material that converts heat into electricity with high efficiency, making it promising for use in energy-harvesting devices. The work is published in the journal ...

A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to ...

Research reveals how reducing dimensionality can trap heat, opening the door to high-efficiency energy devices.

Instead of towering smokestacks, the GreenLab industrial park in Skive, Denmark, is surrounded by wind turbines and a solar array that power its resident companies with renewable energy. "Everything ...

Ireland was still in the middle of rural electrification in 1938 when the city of Zurich was installing a heat pump to heat ...

Antora Energy, a Bill Gates-backed startup with a bold pitch to use blocks of solid graphite to make heat-storing batteries, announced today that it will be opening its first factory in San Jose, ...