A sublimation heat engine
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
(joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 58501561
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/ncomms7390
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 6390
- First page
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- Volume
- 6
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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A - MM
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This work (the world’s first thermodynamic cycle based on sublimation) underpinned the subsequent award of EPSRC grants EP/P005896/1 and EP/P005705/1 (£858k) on applications in microsystems and microgravity environments. The concept of turbine-like surfaces resulted in an invited talk at the Max Planck Society Workshop "Complex Liquids at Structured Surfaces" (Berlin, 27/2/2015). Whilst the fundamental ideas on energy harvesting garnered a Plenary talk at a meeting on “Renewable Energies Development and Applications” (Hefei, China, 14/7/2016), and an invited talk at the EPSRC Thermoelectric Network (NPL, Teddington, 20/4/16). Ideas on harvesting energy on planetary bodies proved popular in the press (e.g. http://theconversation.com/how-energy-from-dry-ice-could-power-human-colonies-on-mars-38250).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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