Scientists have upended long-held assumptions about thermal conductivity, revealing that boron arsenide crystals can conduct heat even better than diamond. Researchers at the University of Houston ...

Researchers have minimized thermal conductivity by designing, fabricating, and evaluating the optimal nanostructure-multilayer materials through materials informatics (MI), which combines machine ...

A new discovery is an important step towards smaller, more advanced electronics. And maybe more environmentally friendly gadgets, too. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

Now, researchers have come up with another set of very surprising findings: The highly periodical structure of spider silk can sustain super fast thermal transport that surpasses those of most organic ...

The discovery of a novel mechanism by a team of researchers that further suppresses thermal conductivity in thermoelectric materials will aid in the development of new standards for the manufacture of ...

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.

Anisotropy in action: artistic visualization of a propagating heat wave getting weaker as it approaches the top of the layered material, while spreading out in other directions. (Courtesy: ...

The optimum nanostructure designed with MI (aperiodic superlattice structure) was actually fabricated, and the optimal performance was verified by assessing its thermal conductivity. Figure: the ...

Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. from The University of Tokyo aimed to reduce the thermal conductivity of semiconductor materials by reducing the internal nanostructure, and successfully minimized ...