{"id":17895,"date":"2021-05-07T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2021-05-07T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:38:38","slug":"a-new-concept-for-nanocolloids-solar-thermoelectric-energy-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/?p=17895","title":{"rendered":"A new concept for nanocolloids: Solar-Thermoelectric energy harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from CNR-INO, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/iramis.cea.fr\/en\/index.php\" rel=\"noopener\">CEA Saclay<\/a>, \u00c9cole des Ponts ParisTech and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phenix.cnrs.fr\/\" rel=\"noopener\">PHENIX<\/a>, a joint laboratory between CNRS and Sorbonne University demonstrated a novel hybrid solar-enabled power generation concept in magnetic nanocolloids showing thermoelectric properties. <\/p>\n<p>A <strong>functional fluid<\/strong> consisting of a stable colloidal suspension of maghemite magnetic nanoparticles in water is proposed for <strong>direct electricity generation from thermoelectric effect enabled by the absorption of sunlight<\/strong>. These nanoparticles were found to be an excellent solar radiation absorber and simultaneously a thermoelectric power-output enhancer with only a very small volume fraction when the fluid was heated from the top.<br \/>\nThe work demonstrates the investigated nanofluid\u2019s high promise as a heat transfer fluid for co-generating heat and power in <strong>brand new hybrid flat-plate solar thermal collectors<\/strong> where top-heating geometry is imposed. <\/p>\n<p>The paper is published open access on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-4991\/11\/4\/1031\/htm?fbclid=IwAR3j7NUVfZzKxUxIEKpUCVFPYrCvc-asRjen_ArOW0EEmIL8CeeseGNyy1Q\" rel=\"noopener\">Nanomaterials journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-4991\/11\/4\/1031\/htm?fbclid=IwAR3j7NUVfZzKxUxIEKpUCVFPYrCvc-asRjen_ArOW0EEmIL8CeeseGNyy1Q\" rel=\"noopener\">Sani, Elisa, Maria Raffaella Martina, Thomas J. Salez, Sawako Nakamae, Emmanuelle Dubois, and V\u00e9ronique Peyre<br \/>\n&#8220;Multifunctional Magnetic Nanocolloids for Hybrid Solar-Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting.&#8221;<br \/>\nNanomaterials vol. 11, no. 4 (2021): 1031.<\/a><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/nano11041031\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/nano11041031<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from CNR-INO, CEA Saclay, \u00c9cole des Ponts ParisTech and PHENIX, a joint laboratory between CNRS and Sorbonne University demonstrated a novel hybrid solar-enabled power generation<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":17905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-researchfocus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17895"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17910,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions\/17910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}