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Rice researchers change graphene to help channel heat away from electronics.
A few nanoscale adjustments may be all that is required to make graphene-nanotube junctions excel at transferring heat, according to Rice University scientists.
The Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson found that putting a cone-like "chimney" between the graphene and nanotube all but eliminates a barrier that blocks heat from escaping.
Heat is transferred through phonons, quasiparticle waves that also transmit sound. The Rice theory offers a strategy to channel damaging heat away from next-generation nano-electronics.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 16 2017, @07:03PM
Will nano chimneys work in space?
Must the CPU have a single preset orientation? eg, do not design an enclosure that puts the CPU into the wrong orientation so that chimneys are sideways or down.
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