Aluminum and copper have the highest thermal conductivity among common metals (205W/mK and 401W/mK versus say 50W/mK for steel) and are easily the most frequently used materials in the making of ...

In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices—ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Huang Zhulin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...

The UMass Amherst-led team is challenging the common belief that perfect fillers are the best choice for creating thermally ...

New research suggests that plastics made with fillers that contain defects may perform up to 160% better than those with ...

A study from UMass Amherst shows that defective fillers in polymers improve heat dissipation by 160 %, offering new insights ...

These materials possess unique properties, such as high electrical and thermal conductivity, low vapor pressure, and the ability to deform and flow like a liquid while retaining metallic ...

creating materials composed of nanometre-size grains or with other nanometre-scale internal structure) to solve one of the key challenges in the field: lowering thermal conductivity while ...

In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices – ones that are lightweight, flexible and ...