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SUBMITTER: Won Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3870663 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Won Yoonjin Y Gao Yuan Y Panzer Matthew A MA Xiang Rong R Maruyama Shigeo S Kenny Thomas W TW Cai Wei W Goodson Kenneth E KE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131205 51
Reliably routing heat to and from conversion materials is a daunting challenge for a variety of innovative energy technologies--from thermal solar to automotive waste heat recovery systems--whose efficiencies degrade due to massive thermomechanical stresses at interfaces. This problem may soon be addressed by adhesives based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, which promise the revolutionary combination of high through-plane thermal conductivity and vanishing in-plane mechanical stiffness. H ...[more]