If you can’t answer the riddle, don’t feel bad. Metal conductors usually conduct electricity and heat. Usually, that’s true, but researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...

"Thermal insulation of this magnitude ... "Surprisingly, the thermal conductivity of the sample was almost one order of magnitude smaller than the value predicted by the laws that govern solid ...

Any solid material can be a heat “conductor.” Metals are good at conducting heat, similar to how they conduct electricity. To stop heat transfer, we need an insulator. The best insulator is a vacuum — ...

The integration of nanomaterials in aerospace thermal management improves thermal insulation and barrier coatings, ensuring ...

All they need now is somewhere to plug it in. This short film introduces pupils to conductors and insulators. It investigates how heat and electricity are transferred or not through different ...

Cavity wall insulation The gap between two brick walls is filled with material that has a lower thermal conductivity than air. This is because it contains trapped air which cannot transfer energy ...

The outer shell of the Shielding Suit is embedded with pure silver, giving it the power to block radio waves, microwaves ...

Yury Gogotsi, PhD, distinguished university and Bach professor in the College of Engineering, was featured in a Jan. 13TechBriefsstory about his recently published research about the rare combination ...

While conventional thermal insulator materials such as mineral ... While the thermal conductivity remained largely unchanged after the treatment, the tensile strength improved by as much as ...