{"id":213082,"date":"2025-05-02T14:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/in-extreme-conditions-heat-does-not-flow-between-materials-it-bounces-off"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:09:28","slug":"in-extreme-conditions-heat-does-not-flow-between-materials-it-bounces-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/in-extreme-conditions-heat-does-not-flow-between-materials-it-bounces-off","title":{"rendered":"In extreme conditions, heat does not flow between materials\u2014it bounces off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interfacial Thermal Resistance\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1065285809?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56051-1\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> shows, for the first time, how heat moves\u2014or rather, doesn\u2019t\u2014between materials in a high-energy-density plasma state.<\/p>\n<p>The work is expected to provide a better understanding of inertial confinement fusion experiments, which aim to reliably achieve fusion ignition on Earth using lasers. How heat flows between a hot plasma and a material\u2019s surface is also important in other technologies, including semiconductor etching and vehicles that fly at hypersonic speeds.<\/p>\n<p>High-energy-density plasmas are produced only at extreme pressures and temperatures. The study shows that interfacial thermal resistance, a phenomenon known to impede <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat transfer<\/a> in less extreme conditions, also prevents <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+flow\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat flow<\/a> between different materials in a dense, super\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hot+plasma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hot plasma<\/a> state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature Communications shows, for the first time, how heat moves\u2014or rather, doesn\u2019t\u2014between materials in a high-energy-density plasma state. The work is expected to provide a better understanding of inertial confinement fusion experiments, which aim to reliably achieve fusion ignition on Earth using lasers. How heat flows between a hot plasma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213082","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}