Liquid thermoelectrics: Review of recent and limited new data of Thermogalvanic cell experiments

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 304-323

  Gunawan, Andrey ^a   Lin, Chao Han ^a   Buttry, Daniel A ^b   Mujica, Vladimiro ^b   Taylor, Robert A ^c   Prasher, Ravi S ^a   Phelan, Patrick E ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

liquid thermoelectric; nonisothermal cell; thermo electrochemical cell; thermocell; thermogalvanic cell; thermogalvanic generator

Indexed keywords

NONISOTHERMAL CELLS; THERMO-ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; THERMOCELL; THERMOGALVANIC CELLS; THERMOGALVANIC GENERATOR;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; LIQUIDS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84884543034     PISSN: 15567265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15567265.2013.776149     Document Type: Article

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