{"id":210796,"date":"2025-04-07T13:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-polymer-discovery-challenges-conventional-wisdom"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:05:24","slug":"new-polymer-discovery-challenges-conventional-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-polymer-discovery-challenges-conventional-wisdom","title":{"rendered":"New Polymer Discovery Challenges Conventional Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-polymer-discovery-challenges-conventional-wisdom.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UMass Amherst-led team is challenging the common belief that perfect fillers are the best choice for creating thermally conductive polymers.<\/p>\n<p>In the pursuit of developing next-generation materials for modern devices, materials that are lightweight, flexible, and highly efficient at dissipating heat, a research team led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-massachusetts-amherst\/\">University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/a> has uncovered a surprising insight: imperfection has its upsides.<\/p>\n<p>Published in Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UMass Amherst-led team is challenging the common belief that perfect fillers are the best choice for creating thermally conductive polymers. In the pursuit of developing next-generation materials for modern devices, materials that are lightweight, flexible, and highly efficient at dissipating heat, a research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has uncovered a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210796","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}