{"id":223826,"date":"2025-10-23T04:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-help-break-thermal-conductivity-barrier-with-boron-arsenide-discovery"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:22:14","slug":"researchers-help-break-thermal-conductivity-barrier-with-boron-arsenide-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-help-break-thermal-conductivity-barrier-with-boron-arsenide-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Researchers help break thermal conductivity barrier with boron arsenide discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-help-break-thermal-conductivity-barrier-with-boron-arsenide-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Houston researchers have made a discovery in thermal conductivity that overturns an existing theory that boron arsenide (BAs) couldn\u2019t compete with the heat conduction of a diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the team found that high-quality crystals can achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/thermal+conductivity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thermal conductivity<\/a> exceeding 2,100 watts per meter per Kelvin (W\/mK) at room temperature\u2014possibly higher than diamond, which has been considered the best heat conductor among isotropic materials.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1369702125004146?dgcid=author\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Materials Today<\/i><\/a>, this research challenges existing theories and could reshape our understanding of heat-conducting materials. It could also bring forth a new semiconductor material with much better thermal management in cell phones, high-powered electronics and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/data+centers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Houston researchers have made a discovery in thermal conductivity that overturns an existing theory that boron arsenide (BAs) couldn\u2019t compete with the heat conduction of a diamond. Instead, the team found that high-quality crystals can achieve thermal conductivity exceeding 2,100 watts per meter per Kelvin (W\/mK) at room temperature\u2014possibly higher than diamond, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223826","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}