{"id":225142,"date":"2025-11-15T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/randomly-aligned-defects-explain-low-thermal-conductivity-in-some-materials"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:19:13","slug":"randomly-aligned-defects-explain-low-thermal-conductivity-in-some-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/randomly-aligned-defects-explain-low-thermal-conductivity-in-some-materials","title":{"rendered":"Randomly aligned defects explain low thermal conductivity in some materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/randomly-aligned-defects-explain-low-thermal-conductivity-in-some-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>QUT researchers have identified why some materials can block heat more effectively, which is a key feature for energy conversion, insulation and gas storage.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-64749-5\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>, discovered a structural mechanism that explains why some materials with uneven composition exhibit exceptionally <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/low+thermal+conductivity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">low thermal conductivity<\/a>. This is a property vital for the conversion of heat into <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first author, Siqi Liu, said the findings challenged conventional models that overlook the role of microstructural features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT researchers have identified why some materials can block heat more effectively, which is a key feature for energy conversion, insulation and gas storage. The research, published in Nature Communications, discovered a structural mechanism that explains why some materials with uneven composition exhibit exceptionally low thermal conductivity. This is a property vital for the conversion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225142","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=225142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}