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Spin-related effects in thermoelectricity offer novel promising applications for the harvesting of thermal energy. With this perspective, coupling heat-driven transport with spintronics is at the heart of the rapidly emerging field of spin caloritronics.

In a recent publication in Science Advances*, Tristan da Câmara Santa Clara Gomes, Flavio Abreu Araujo and Luc Piraux at BSMA-IMCN have fabricated macroscopic-scale spin caloritronic devices made of 3D multilayered CoNi/Cu nanowire networks. The flexible and shapeable thermoelectric films constitute promising candidates for heat management applications and overcome the insufficient power generation capability exhibited by the custom-patterned nanoscale magnetic structures reported previously.

*T. da Câmara Santa Clara Gomes, F. Abreu Araujo and L. Piraux, Science Advances 5, eaav2782 (2019); DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav2782