Complex materials such as organic semiconductors or the microporous metal-organic frameworks known as MOFs are already being ...

Buildings often feel too warm in the summer and too cold in the winter. In the summer, energy transfers to the building from its warmer surroundings. In winter, energy transfers from the building ...

Complex materials such as organic compound semiconductors or the microporous metal-organic frameworks known as MOFs are already being used for numerous applications such as OLED displays, solar cells, ...

A nanostructured copper alloy, Cu-Ta-Li (Copper-Tantalum-Lithium), could be a groundbreaking new high-temperature material ...

The crucial insight is that the phonons that are responsible for the lattice component of the thermal conductivity typically have longer mean free paths than the electrons in thermoelectric materials.