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Scientists Defy Century-Old Limit on Turning Heat Into Electricity

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Scientists from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in a collaborative research have reversed a limit which was accepted for over a century on turning heat into electricity.

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Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have shattered the centuries-old belief that diamond is merely a structural material by discovering that ultra-thin and flexible diamond membranes can generate electricity when bent.

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have found that ultrathin, flexible membranes made of polycrystalline diamond are capable of generating an electrical response when bent, a phenomenon called piezoelectricity.

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