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A heat-harvesting film can also bend and bow

The film’s flexibilty, rare in ‘thermoelectric’ materials, could make it useful for powering wearable devices.
A thin-film-based prototype flexible thermoelectric device

A device that harvests heat from the environment and converts it to voltage flexes with ease. Credit: Z.-H. Zheng et al./Nat. Sustain.

A material that efficiently transforms waste heat into useful electricity is also highly flexible, allowing it to be made into devices that can conform to the human body1.

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Nature 612, 11 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03773-7

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  1. Zheng, Z-H. et al. Nature Sust. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01003-6 (2022).

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