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Episode 4: Turning Heat into Electricity

Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast

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Theronamics - The Pelte Effect

The pelte coefficient is essentially a ratio or relationship between the amount of heat applied, as well as the the amount of charge carriers o the movement of charge carriers whers at. The main issue is that electrons participate in thermal conduction. If you make a whole bunch of carriers, now you have carriers for heat. And if you make it so that something has low thermal conductivity, you may disrupt the carrier of electricity. They're both functions of each other. It's really challenging. Like work for hundreds of years, sort of challenging, and not really change things that much.

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