Featured

• Australian researchers develop new graphene material

  Scientists created a process for producing graphene that uses a designer surfactant, based on benzoxazine, which suspends graphene and links it together to form a polymer. details>>

• Researchers develop DNA-based single-electron electronic devices

  Researchers from the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyvaskyla and BioMediTech at the University of Tampere, funded by the Academy of Finland, have developed a new pathway towards single-electron electronics that can be used at room temperature by using DNA. details>>

• Researchers explore optimal EV battery thermal management

  Researchers published a report exploring the performance of an optimal battery degradation management strategy as applied to plug-in fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) in sub-zero weather conditions. details>>

• Choose the proper power supply for your LED project

  The European editors at Digi-Key Electronics published an article detailing the considerations that should go into picking the right power supply for a LED project. details>>

• Company patenting product for thermal management in a roof

  CertainTeed Corporation of Malvern, Pa. has applied for a U.S. patent for a roof product that will improve thermal management by storing thermal heat during a heating cycle, vents the excess heat, and releases heat during a cooling cycle. details>>

• Graphene-enhanced TIMs make PV cells more efficient

  A group of researchers with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California - Riverside recently released details from its study of graphene-enhanced thermal interface materials on the efficiency of next generation photo-voltaic solar cells. details>>

• Measuring the dielectric constant for capacitors

  Steven Dufresne, writing for Hackaday.com, presented a column for do-it-yourself engineers who need to create their own capacitors. details>>

• Researchers see thermal benefit from carbon nanotubes

  Researchers at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology released a report in June entitled, "Thermo-mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and applications in thermal management." details>>

• Particle collisions could lead to overheating circuits

  MIT researchers have released a new report in Nature Communications that may leads to a possible explanation for overheating issues in high component density products, such as smartphones. details>>

• Study of thermal performance of a flat loop heat pipe

  In 2015, Md Monir Hossain and John Kizito, engineers at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, published a report in Frontiers in Heat Pipes that discussed the thermal performance of flat loop heat pipes and their impact on the cooling of electronics. details>>