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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  ·  25 September 2026  ·  From issue 42

Leveraging room-temperature plastic deformation for tailoring inorganic thermoelectrics

In lab tests, squeezing then reheating a heat-to-electricity material made it much stronger without weakening its power.

Tianyu Zhang, Yao Xu et al.

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