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A Miniature Refrigeration System Small Enough to Fit Inside Laptops and Computers

News - 20 Jun 2008

Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while...

Controlling Material Structure At Nanoscale Makes Better Thermal Insulator - New Product

Article - 18 Feb 2004

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a better thermal insulator by controlling material structure at the nanoscale. Posted February 12 2004

Thin-Film Thermoelectric Coolers Get Smaller and More Powerful with Technology Advances

News - 23 Oct 2008

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, today announced the availability of the OptoCooler HV series, a new class of...

Magnetite Nanofluid Manipulated by Magnets Could Prevent Hotspots in Plant Cooling Systems

News - 20 Nov 2013

Cooling systems generally rely on water pumped through pipes to remove unwanted heat. Now, researchers at MIT and in Australia have found a way of enhancing heat transfer in such systems by using...

Nanometer-Scale Structures in Silicon Push Liquid Up

News - 17 Mar 2010

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have discovered a way to make liquid flow vertically upward along a silicon surface, overcoming the pull of gravity, without pumps...

Researchers Discover Method to Induce and Suppress Branching of Nanorods

News - 18 Jul 2008

A new technique for growing single-crystal nanorods and controlling their shape using biomolecules could enable the development of smaller, more powerful heat pumps and devices that harvest...

Carbon Nanotube-Based Water Desalination and Purification Technology Awarded Patent

News - 9 Jun 2015

Somenath Mitra, distinguished professor of chemistry and environmental science, was awarded a patent last month for a next-generation water desalination and purification technology that uses uniquely...

Researchers Consider Nanofluids as Volumetric Absorbers in PTC-CSP Plants

News - 27 Jul 2022

The creation of palladium (Pd) and silver (Au) nanoplate-containing nanofluids for volumetric absorption of intense solar radiation in concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with parabolic-trough...

Cryogen Free Sub-Kelvin ARPES System

News - 23 Oct 2019

Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) is used to study the electronic structure of the surface of solids. The ARPES technique employs a synchrotron or laser beam to interact with a sample,...

Industrial Adhesives – Advanced Adhesive Solutions for Nanotechnological Applications

Article - 10 Aug 2010

Nanotechnological engineering, yet an infant in its growth is the promise of the future.