February 23, 2021 Scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, have developed a new lead-free material that can convert waste heat to power home appliances and automobiles. The new material, called Cadmium (Cd) doped Silver Antimony Telluride (AgSbTe2), can efficiently allow recovery of electricity from waste heat, marking a paradigm shift in the thermoelectric puzzle, the Ministry of Science and Technology said in a statement. A team led by Professor Kanishka Biswas at JNCASR, which is overseen by the Department of Science and Technology, internally introduced Silver Antimony Telluride with Cadmium to develop the material for thermoelectric energy conversion. The scientists have reported this breakthrough in the journal