ME Professor Arun Majumdar and co-workers are developing a new device that could have a profound impact on global energy supplies by converting wasted heat into electricity. It could potentially have an impact on everything from power plants to cell phones, and it came about because of a serendipitous discovery that had eluded scientists for half a century.

Their work, reported in the January 10 issue of the journal Nature, has created broad interest and has produced items in many publications, some of which are

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