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posted by on Monday January 16 2017, @04:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the needs-a-nano-chimney-sweep dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @09:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @09:47PM (#454541)

    How about dataflow architecture?