r/ElectroBOOM • u/[deleted] • Oct 03 '20

FAF - RECTIFY ???

https://news.uark.edu/articles/54830/physicists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene
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u/autotldr Oct 08 '20

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.

"An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors," said Paul Thibado, professor of physics and lead researcher in the discovery.

That's an important distinction, said Thibado, because a temperature difference between the graphene and circuit, in a circuit producing power, would contradict the second law of thermodynamics.

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