In a study published in Nature Materials, a team of engineers at the University of Virginia and their collaborators revealed a radical new way to move heat, faster than ever before. Using a special ...

Using a special kind of crystal called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), they found a way to move heat like a beam of light, sidestepping the usual bottlenecks that make electronics overheat.

Boron attracted attention for a while because burning its hydrides (boranes) generated more heat per kilogram than burning hydrocarbons. Although the thermally unstable boranes seemed far from ...

This finding could result in electric vehicles with more range, longer battery life, and improved performance.

Researchers from the University of Tokyo propose cooling chips using microchannels built into the chips themselves. The ...

To pull this off, the team used a kind of crystal called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), which has certain special properties that can be leveraged to move heat quickly through it. In most ...

Boron, a moderately volatile element with strong fluid mobility, serves as a useful tracer for tracking the recycling of volatiles through its isotopic composition (δ¹¹B). Studies of boron ...

Using a special kind of crystal called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), they found a way to move heat like a beam of light, sidestepping the usual bottlenecks that make electronics overheat.