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• Study reveals new way to enhance or reduce adhesion of freezing droplets

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. have discovered a new aspect of the mechanical process in which freezing droplets react when impacting a surface that focuses on the thermal property of the surface. details>>

• New 3-D printing process produces pure copper components

  Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, Germany will present a new selective laser melting process for copper materials at the upcoming formnext in Frankfurt, Germany. details>>

• Scientists test cooling system that works without electricity

  Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.) scientists continue to build on research that was originally published in 2014 by testing a new cooling system on the roof of the Packard Electrical Engineering Building on campus that demonstrates how to use radiative sky cooling to dramatically cut air conditioning costs. details>>

• Experiment measures thermal conductivity in warm dense matter regime

  Researchers working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, Calif. have developed an experimental platform, called differential heating, to measure the thermal conductivity of materials in the warm dense matter (WDM) regime. details>>

• What are the benefits of pin fin heat sinks in thermal management

  A recent article presented by Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) looked at pin fin heat sinks, which have been a standard heat sink geometry for many years, to get a better understanding of the benefits that the design brings to the thermal management of electronics. details>>

• New study gives picture of thermal conductivity in complex materials

  Researchers from the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France and the Laboratoire Leon Brillouin in Saclay, France used inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and neutron resonant spin-echo (NRSE) experiments to study the phonon lifetime of a clathrate to describe the thermal conductivity of complex materials. details>>

• Scientists tweak thermoelectric voltage across atomic scale by mechanical force

  Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) have demonstrated precise and fully reversible switching of the polarity of voltage produced by the thermoelectric effect across a gold junction with an atomic-scale contact. details>>

• Research provides insight into atomic structure of next-gen superconductors

  Using neutron diffraction at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, researchers have been able to clarify the absence of magnetic order and classify the superconductivity of next-generation superconductors, such as THFeAsN (an iron-based nitride). details>>

• IBM team breaks thermal barrier in 3-D chip stacks with liquid cooling

  Researchers at IBM in New York and Zurich have announced that they have reached a breakthrough in cooling three-dimensional chip stacks, breaking the thermal barrier with a nonconductive fluid. details>>

• Scientists researching effective thermal conductivity of cable bedding materials

  Researchers at TU Darmstadt (Germany) are studying the effective thermal conductivity of cable bedding materials used in the underground energy distribution grid to determine the extent of the load that the materials can handle. details>>