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• Article discusses the higher standard required of aerospace thermal design

  A recent article from Electronics Weekly, written by Tom Gregory, a product specialist at 6SigmaET, explored the necessarily high standards required of thermal design in aerospace electronics, standards higher than in most industries. details>>

• New filter improves power plant water consumption for cooling

  Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory (Albuquerque, N.M.) have developed a new silica filter for the coolant in power plants to reduce the amount of freshwater that plants consume by increasing the number of times that a cooling tower can be reused and recycled. details>>

• Scientists transform ambient heat into motion in nanoscale devices

  A team of researchers from the University of Glasgow (Scotland), the University of Exeter (England) and ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have demonstrated a magnetic system that extracts thermal energy on the nanoscale and using magnetic energy to direct rotation of the magnetization. details>>

• Researchers create material that expands when heated to fill space

  Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul have developed microbombs, materials that expand when heated to form microclusters that fill the space in which they are physically confined. details>>

• White Paper outlines the use of nanofluids in electronics cooling

  Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) recently posted a white paper on the use of nanofluids in electronics cooling applications, authored by Dr. Reza Azizian, which was originally published by the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) as part of the organization?s roadmap of future technologies. details>>

• Circuit design demonstrates possibility of wearable thermoelectric generators

  Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) have used flexible polymers and novel circuitry patterns printed on paper to demonstrate the potential for wearable thermoelectric generators that harvest energy from the body to power biosensors. details>>

• Lightweight silver nanowire aerogel could boost electronics industry

  A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, Calif.) have developed a new, lightweight, silver nanowire aerogel that has advanced electrical and thermal properties. details>>

• With focused infrared laser, researchers fabricate 3-D silicon structures

  Researchers from Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, both in Ankara, Turkey, have described a novel method for writing 3-D structures inside the silicon chips using a focused infrared laser beam. details>>

• Researchers unexpectedly discover new theory of liquid streaming

  University of Houston (Texas) researchers unexpectedly discovered a new optofluidics principle while studying the nonlinear transmission of light through an aqueous suspension of gold particles. details>>

• Researchers build barrier against oxidation in 2-D materials

  Scientists demonstrated that phosphorene, a two-dimensional material, can be stabilized with the right choice of substrate and an electrical field, which could advance the production of flexible, low-power electronic devices. details>>