{"id":101039,"date":"2020-01-18T03:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/material-developed-which-is-heat-insulating-and-heat-conducting-at-the-same-time"},"modified":"2020-01-18T03:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T11:02:47","slug":"material-developed-which-is-heat-insulating-and-heat-conducting-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/material-developed-which-is-heat-insulating-and-heat-conducting-at-the-same-time","title":{"rendered":"Material developed which is heat-insulating and heat-conducting at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/material-developed-which-is-heat-insulating-and-heat-conducting-at-the-same-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Styrofoam or copper\u2014both materials have very different properties with regard to their ability to conduct heat. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and the University of Bayreuth have now jointly developed and characterized a novel, extremely thin and transparent material that has different thermal conduction properties depending on the direction. While it can conduct heat extremely well in one direction, it shows good thermal insulation in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal insulation and thermal conduction play a crucial role in our everyday lives\u2014from computer processors, where it is important to dissipate heat as quickly as possible, to houses, where good insulation is essential for energy costs. Often extremely light, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/porous+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">porous materials<\/a> such as polystyrene are used for insulation, while heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> such as metals are used for heat dissipation. A newly developed material, which scientists at the MPI-P have jointly developed and characterized with the University of Bayreuth, can now combine both properties.<\/p>\n<p>The material consists of alternating layers of wafer-thin glass plates between which individual polymer chains are inserted. \u201cIn principle, our material produced in this way corresponds to the principle of double glazing,\u201d says Markus Retsch, Professor at the University of Bayreuth. \u201cIt only shows the difference that we not only have two layers, but hundreds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Styrofoam or copper\u2014both materials have very different properties with regard to their ability to conduct heat. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and the University of Bayreuth have now jointly developed and characterized a novel, extremely thin and transparent material that has different thermal conduction properties depending on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}