Science news articles about 'thermal conductivity'

  • LLNL's prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance

    ... vapor after being parked three to four days, even when using the best thermal insulation available (200 times less conductive than Styrofoam insulation). In recent testing of ...
  • Cool! Nanoparticle research points to energy savings

    ... for nanoparticle-enabled improvements in heat-transfer performance. For one, nanoparticles of materials with high thermal conductivity improve heat transfer rates for the system. Preliminary results ...
  • Material may help autos turn heat into electricity

    ... to electricity. So the typical strategy for making a good thermoelectric material is to lower its thermal conductivity. In Heremans' lab, he used to work to lower the thermal conductivity by building ...
  • 'Small' research at MSU leads to advances in energy, electronics

    ... set of physical, chemical and morphological attributes. The nanoscale material, which is electrically and thermally conductive, has reduced flammability and barrier properties, he said. The graphene ...
  • Introducing the next generation of chemical reactors

    ... size, shape, or structure. These changes could in turn alter transport properties such as thermal conductivity and viscosity, and catalyst activity – and hence regulate the reactions. Professor Ding ...
  • Looking for water on Mars

    ... . is actually mounted on the robotic arm and makes direct contact with the regolith. It measures thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, electrical conductivity, and dielectric permittivity of the ...
  • Baked slug: New method to test fireproofing material

    ... that cause important chemical and structural changes. Traditional methods for measuring thermal conductivity at high temperatures have not been adequate. They have relied on “hot wire” techniques, ...
  • A new material could act as a nanofridge for microchips

    ... the lower levels. The main result of the uncorrelation between consecutive layers is the reduction in thermal conductivity, since it becomes more difficult to transport heat perpendicularly from the ...
  • Promising new material that could improve gas mileage

    ... , also in the form of nanodots -- to lead-telluride to see if they could lower the thermal conductivity even more. They were surprised when they saw the results. "The thermal conductivity was not any ...
  • Seismic response to natural gas anomalies in crystalline rocks

    ... of the cores include porosity, water-permeability, elastic wave velocity, conductivity, and thermal conductivity etc. For the interval with gas anomalies (2310m-3280m), gneiss has the lowest porosity ...
  • Plastic as a conductor

    ... . The composite possesses the desired chemical stability and low weight, coupled with the electrical and thermal conductivity of metals. As it will no longer be necessary in future to integrate metal ...
  • Contact through silver particles in ink

    ... us to print extremely thin-layered conductor paths.” Subsequent thermal treatment activates the electrical conductivity of the paths. The researchers have tried and tested these conductor paths ...
  • By adding graphene, researchers create superior polymer

    ... , and researchers hope to use that property to eventually create thermally stable, optically transparent conducting polymers. The results of their research were published May 11 in the online version ...
  • Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers

    ... compressors, and you can stack them," Groll said. The researchers conducted laboratory experiments with the diaphragms in Garimella's Thermal Microsystems Lab, developed a computational model for ...
  • Swerve left to avoid that satellite

    ... properties, such as high strength and wear resistance, and controllable electrical and thermal properties. "This could lead to a superior material for the external blankets of spacecraft," says Eliaz ...

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