By using a thermoelectric material, one can harvest this heat.
Thus Thermoelectric materials are able to convert heat to electricity and vice versa which can be seen in refrigerators.
Also these materials are too costly to be used commercially.
Traditional materials thus cannot serve the purpose and hence scientists had to move towards nanomaterials.
Prof Freer further also added: The new material will convert 3-5% of the heat into electricity.
The details of the research and its findings have been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
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