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 — ...

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 ...

This property of conductors appears to be the result of thermal agitation of the electric charges in the material of the conductor. The effect has been observed and measured for various conductors ...

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 ...

Scientists in the US have developed a polymer thermal conductor that they claim can dissolve heat instead of insulating it. Plastics are already good insulators because they can trap heat easily ...

Non-metals and gases are usually poor conductors. Poor conductors of heat are called insulators. The atoms of a solid are held together by chemical bonds. The atoms are fixed in place but are free ...

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 ...