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Xinqing Yuneng, founded in 2025 in Shanghai's Lin-gang by SJTU professor Hu Zhiyu's team, develops micro-electro-mechanical energy (MEME) thermoelectric chips integrating about 60,000 thermoelectric pairs on a single silicon die to generate power from very small temperature differences, targeting industrial waste-heat recovery and data-center cooling.
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