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• Scientists publish research on creation of the first time crystal

  A team of researchers led by the University of Maryland reported the creation of an entirely new phase of matter, which they are calling a time crystal. details>>

• PCS researchers explain electronics structure of graphene

  Physicists at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS) and the Research Institute for Standards and Science (KRISS) created a model to explain the electronic structure of graphene with measurements from a new spectroscopic platform. details>>

• UChicago students use heat to levitate objects in vacuum chamber

  A pair of undergraduate physics students at the University of Chicago (UChicago) demonstrated how to levitate a variety of objects, including glass bubbles, polyethylene spheres, and ice particles, using the movement of heat from a warm plate towards a chilled cylinder. details>>

• Sandia Labs research uses kinetics not temperature to make ceramic coatings

  Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new process for creating ultrafine-grained ceramic coatings by slamming high-velocity submicron ceramic particles onto a surface at room temperature. details>>

• Carnegie Mellon researchers develop thermally conductive stretchable rubber

  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an electrically insulating rubber material that demonstrated metal-like thermal conductivity that can stretch to six times its initial length. details>>

• IBM Zurich researchers measure single quantum of heat

  For the first time, IBM scientists, along with students from ETH Zurich, successfully measured the thermal conductance of metallic quantum point contacts, composed of gold, to the single-atom level at room temperature. details>>

• Researchers using polymers to stabilize micro-hotplates for smart gas sensor

  A team of researchers from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) have incorporated SU-8, a polymer with mechanical stability and low thermal conductivity, as a supporting material to improve micro-hotplates in gas sensors. details>>

• Article explains benefits of copper filling of through-holes in LED substrates

  Engineers from MacDermid Enthone Electronics Solutions explored electroplated copper filling of through-holes in high-density interconnect constructions on thin IC and LED substrates in order to avoid surface copper buildup and to provide efficient thermal management despite circuit miniaturization. details>>

• New material designed to cool buildings in eco-friendly manner

  Engineers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a scalable, manufactured metamaterial from a glass-polymer hybrid that effectively reflects solar energy, while allowing for the dissipation of infrared thermal radiation. details>>

• FSU professor theorizes inorganic-organic hybrid could be electrically efficient

  Shanchao Lin, a professor at Florida A&M and Florida State Universities, has theorized that organometal halide perovskites could provide more flexible mechanical properties than silicon and other inorganic materials and also be more energy efficient as well. details>>