{"id":630724,"date":"2019-09-13T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630724"},"modified":"2019-09-13T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:00:01","slug":"paramagnetic-spins-take-electrons-for-a-ride-produce-electricity-from-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630724","title":{"rendered":"Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid can convert heat to energy even in a paramagnetic material\u2014where spins weren&#8217;t thought to correlate long enough to do so. This effect, which the researchers call &#8220;paramagnon drag thermopower,&#8221; converts a temperature difference into an electrical voltage. This discovery could lead to more efficient thermal energy harvesting\u2014for example, converting car exhaust heat into electric power to enhance fuel-efficiency, or powering smart clothing by body heat.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-paramagnetic-electrons-electricity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heat<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid can convert heat to energy even in a paramagnetic material\u2014where spins weren&#8217;t thought to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}