Scientists create world's smallest 'refrigerator'
How do you keep the world's tiniest soda cold? UCLA scientists may have the answer.
How do you keep the world's tiniest soda cold? UCLA scientists may have the answer.
Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2020
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of California and SRI International has developed a new type of cooling device that is both portable and efficient. In their paper published in the journal Science, the ...
Thermoelectric materials can turn a temperature difference into an electric voltage. Among their uses in a variety of specialized applications: generating power on space probes and cooling seats in fancy cars.
Condensed Matter
May 14, 2014
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A new study published today in the journal Nature Materialss has found a way to suppress the thermal conductivity in sodium cobaltate so that it can be used to harvest waste energy.
Materials Science
Aug 25, 2013
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Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the chip.