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September 08, 2016

Researchers design solids that control heat with spinning superatoms
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Sep 07, 2016
Researchers found that the thermal conductivity of superatom crystals is directly related to the rotational disorder within those structures. The findings were published in an article in Nature Materials this week. Carnegie Mellon University's Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jonathan A. Malen was a corresponding author of the paper titled "Orientational Order Controls Crystalline and Amorphous Thermal Transport in Superatomic Crystals." Superatom crystals are periodic--or regul ... read more

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