News tagged with thermal engineering
Solar cooling becomes a new air-conditioning system air-conditioning system
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Scientists from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spain) have developed an environmentally friendly cooling technology that does not ...
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Scientists Propose Thermal Memory to Store Data
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Most computers today store memory electronically, by maintaining a certain voltage. In contrast, a new kind of memory that stores data thermally, by maintaining temperature, is being investigated by researchers Lei Wang of ...
Graphene Takes the Heat
Feb 20, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are being touted by many scientists and engineers as the material of the future, with the potential to revolutionize electronic technologies. But a new study shows that nanotubes may not be ...
How to enhance non-thermal effects of ultrasound
Dec 29, 2008 |
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In recent years HIFU has been widely used for the treatment of solid tumors, such as liver tumor, bone tumor, and breast cancer. The mechanism for therapeutic actions of HIFU includes thermal effects and non-thermal effects ...
Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to ...
By adding graphene, researchers create superior polymer
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 19, 2008 |
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Researchers at Northwestern University and Princeton University have created a new kind of polymer that, because of its extraordinary thermal and mechanical properties, could be used in everything from airplanes to solar ...
Engineers develop method to disperse chemically modified graphene in organic solvents
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A method for creating dispersed and chemically modified graphene sheets in a wide variety of organic solvents has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin engineering team led by Professor Rod Ruoff, opening the ...
First direct evidence of lightning on Mars detected
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2009 |
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For the first time, direct evidence of lightning has been detected on Mars, say University of Michigan researchers who found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the Red Planet.
Nanofluids not so super-cool after all
Aug 30, 2007 |
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MIT engineers have shown that nanofluids, which once held promise as a super-coolant, do not have the theoretical cooling capabilities many scientists believed they had.
Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in novel material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro ...
Researchers develop new test method to measure stored heat in firefighter suits
Apr 14, 2009 |
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For decades, researchers have evaluated the thermal performance of protective clothing worn by firefighters. A particular area of current interest is how to address the burns received by firefighters when they are not directly ...
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