Friday, March 12, 2010

MIT Researchers Discover Process for Generating Electricity Using Nanotechnlogy to Create Thermopower Waves


The technology behind this nanotechnology process is a little more advanced than my overall comprehension, so I hope I do not make a fool of myself trying to explain it for this blog article. Actually, CNN does a much better job of explaining how these MIT researchers discovered a novel way to create electricity.

It works like this: Researchers used tiny wires, known as carbon nanotubes, to create a powerful wave of energy, according to Michael Strano, and MIT associate professor of chemical engineering. He is also the senior author of a paper on this new phenomenon, published in this week's Nature Materials journal.

After coating these tiny wires with a layer of fuel, Strano said his team generated a so-called thermopower wave and stumbled across a reaction that may eventually be used to power electronics, computers and cell phones.

Source: CNN


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