For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Inelastic insights: phasons were studied using the HYSPEC spectrometer on Oak Ridge’s Spallation Neutron Source. (Courtesy: ORNL) New insights into the exotic thermal behaviour of phasons – ...

Technical ceramics are used in many applications where traditional materials such as steel or plastic are ineffective or unsuitable. For many of these applications, extreme hardness, wear resistance, ...

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in precisely controlling temperature-dependent thermal conductivity with the help of polymer materials. These advanced functional materials were initially ...

A material known as cubic boron arsenide has two major advantages over silicon, research shows. It provides high mobility to both electrons and holes, and it has excellent thermal conductivity. It is, ...

Power cube: Researchers claim that cubic boron arsenide is the best semiconducting material ever found, and perhaps even the best possible one. (Courtesy: Christine Daniloff/MIT) Cubic boron arsenide ...