Crystal Cages for Clean Coolers Link to PDF file

Laszlo Mihaly, SUNY@Stony Brook

News and Views article - Keppens et al. Nature, 395, 876 (1998)

Text in .html or MS Word .doc file.

Here are a few nice pictures:
The rattling atom in its cage. Courtesy of B. C. Chakoumakos, ONRL
The rattling atom in its cage. Larger version, with thermal ellipsoids. Courtesy of B. C. Chakoumakos, ONRL
Same as above, slightly different representation.
Strucure of filled skutterudites from http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev30-12/text/advanced.htm
The real skutterudite mineral, Co As3, from http://209.51.193.54//minerals/sulfides/skutteru/skutteru.htm
Cooling devices, from http://www.marlow.com/mg_las6.htm. The are NOT using skutterudites.


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