Quantum Physicists Just Reclassified Waste Heat. Neutrinovoltaics Did It First.

Where does waste end and useful energy begin? New quantum thermodynamics research from the University of Basel challenges the idea that this boundary is fixed. In a seemingly distant field, neutrinovoltaic research has been asking a related question through multilayer nanomaterials and ambient energy interactions. Different systems, different methods, no shared research program, yet an intriguing conceptual intersection.