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• Wallpaper patterns lead to new insulating material with metallic surface

  An international team of researchers from Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.), the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.), Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul, South Korea), Freie Universit?t Berlin (Germany), and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Halle, Germany) has discovered a new insulating material with a metallic surface using new analytical methods that rely on... details>>

• Tiny crater in glass creates a material that could miniaturize telecom devices

  Researchers from the University of Leeds (U.K.) have reported on a laser-assisted study of glass, made of sodium, zinc, and tellurium, which has been doped with the rare-earth element erbium and could be used to improve telecommunications technology. details>>

• Research supports Einstein theorem about how heat moves through solids

  Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) have found evidence that shows heat hopping randomly from atom to atom in thermal insulators, which supports a theory that Einstein first proposed in 1911. details>>

• Researchers create lightweight, flexible polymer with high thermal conductivity

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have developed a new lightweight, flexible polymer that can conduct heat 10 times better than most commercially-available polymers and could be a step forward in thermal management applications. details>>

• UCLA researchers set new thermal conductivity benchmark with boron arsenide crystals

  There have been a handful of reports coming from colleges across the U.S. about the potential of boron arsenide crystals in thermal management applications and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) established a new benchmark by creating defect-less crystals with a thermal conductivity of 1,300 W/mK. details>>

• Thermally-conductive crystals could be used to keep computers cool

  Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Houston (Texas) have created crystals of boron arsenide that have extremely high thermal conductivity, which could be used instead of silicon to create high-powered, small electronics. details>>

• Research explores thermal capabilities of new ionic liquid-based nanofluids

  In an article from Science Trends, researchers reviewed recent studies of ionanofluids (INF), new heat transfer fluids that consist of nanoparticles suspended in ionic liquids (IL) that can be tailored towards specific applications. details>>

• Researchers develop bulk boron arsenide crystals with high thermal conductivity

  A team of researchers led by the University of Houston (Texas) have developed a method for growing boron arsenide crystals with a thermal conductivity of 1,000 W/mK in sizes that are large enough to be used in real-world applications. details>>

• High-powered thermoelectric generator could advance IoT, wearables technology

  Researchers from Waseda University, Osaka University, and Shizuoka University in Japan have announced the development of a novel silicon nanowire thermoelectric generator with a power density of 12 microwatts per square centimeter with a thermal difference of only five degrees. details>>

• Graphene photodetector from UCLA enhances thermal imaging performance

  Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have taken advantage of the unique properties of graphene to create and enhanced photodetector that works with more types of light than standard devices and has enhanced sensing and imaging properties. details>>