h-BN is a good conductor of heat@sigh
This type of 3-D thermal-management system can open up opportunities for thermal switches, or thermal rectifiers, where the heat flowing in one direction can be different than the reverse direction," Shahsavari said. "This can be done by changing the shape of the material, or changing its mass – say one side is heavier than the other – to create a switch. The heat would always prefer to go one way, but in the reverse direction it would be slowernot maxwell's demon so much as a new switch/rectifier
So if I put that material between two compartments that experience uncorrelated temperature fluctuations, one of them would heat up?
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Jul 15, 2015