Turning car and helicopter exhaust into thermoelectric energy (IMAGE)

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Turning car and helicopter exhaust into thermoelectric energy

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Researchers design and test a waste-heat recovery system, illustrated here, that attaches to a car tailpipe and converts heat from exhaust into energy. The fanned grooves on the outside of the pipe are the cold side of the device’s heatsink and the triangular components inside the pipe are plate-fin heat exchangers.

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Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c18023

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