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Monday, March 8, 2010

MIT Researchers Discover New Way of Producing Electricity


From e! Science News

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes.

The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say. The phenomenon, described as thermopower waves, "opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare," says Michael Strano, MIT's Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, who was the senior author of a paper describing the new findings that appeared in
Nature Materials on March 7. The lead author was Wonjoon Choi, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering.

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