Light, sound, and now, heat — just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic metamaterials can hide a... Read more
Graphene layer one atom thick could quadruple rate of condensation heat transfer in generating plants. Most of the world’s electricity-producing power plants — whether powered by coal, natur... Read more
The spaghetti-like internal structure of most plastics makes it hard for them to cast away heat, but a University of Michigan research team has made a plastic blend that does so 10 times bet... Read more
Researchers are proposing a new technology that might control the flow of heat the way electronic devices control electrical current, an advance that could have applications in a diverse ran... Read more
The team’s experiments showed that the efficiency of heat transfer using these treated surfaces could be increased by 30 percent Scalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers c... Read more
Interdisciplinary Study From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Demonstrates New Method for Significantly Increasing Heat Transfer Rate Across Two Different Materials A team of interdisciplina... Read more
“Our surfaces improved heat transfer up to 71 percent” New nanopatterned surfaces could improve the efficiency of powerplants and desalination systems. The condensation of... Read more
Pool boiling is the most common and familiar method of heating By adding an incredibly thin coating of alumina to a metal surface, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology h... Read more