In other news, researchers have discovered neurons in the brains of liberals that conduct electric currents but conduct no information of any kind.
VO2 doesn’t sound like a metal, any more than CuO2 does.
Conduct heat? Opposed to generating heat?
I recall the concept of superconductors having low resistance thereby generating low heat. Similar discovery?
It’s not a metal. It’s an oxide, or it could be a ceramic.
“....much was being propagated by the vibration of the material’s unique crystal lattices, or phonons.”
Of course it was!
(even spell check doesn’t know what phonons are)
This is not possible. The Wiedemann-Franz Law has been settled science for a century and a half. It’s common knowledge that a consensus of 97 percent of scientists support the Wiedemann-Franz Law. These skeptics should be banned from publishing their drivel.
From Wikipedia:The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa. A thermoelectric device creates voltage when there is a different temperature on each side. Conversely, when a voltage is applied to it, it creates a temperature difference. At the atomic scale, an applied temperature gradient causes charge carriers in the material to diffuse from the hot side to the cold side.The thermoelectric effect has, IIRC, been used for ultra-low-temperature refrigeration. But the obvious limitation of the usefulness of the effect for anything other than thermocouples to measure temperature is, quote the article, “the Wiedemann-Franz Law, the rule that suggests good conductors of electricity will also be good conductors of thermal energy.”That is, if you make a thermocouple and push a DC current through it that will result in cooling one junction of the two dissimilar metal wires and heating at the other - but if the wires you use are good electrical conductors they will also be good thermal conductors - and the conduction of heat from the hot junction to the cold junction is exactly what you do not want.
I would therefore propose - and not likely be the first to think of it - that the practicality of thermocouples and the thermoelectric effect as mechanism to achieve refrigeration/heat pumps on the one hand, and the generation of DC electric power on the other, be reevaluated with the use of VO2 to insulate thermally but not electrically added into the mix.