{"id":228984,"date":"2026-01-14T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/taming-heat-novel-solution-enables-unprecedented-control-of-heat-conduction"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:27:10","slug":"taming-heat-novel-solution-enables-unprecedented-control-of-heat-conduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/taming-heat-novel-solution-enables-unprecedented-control-of-heat-conduction","title":{"rendered":"Taming heat: Novel solution enables unprecedented control of heat conduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taming-heat-novel-solution-enables-unprecedented-control-of-heat-conduction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gal Shmuel of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion\u2014Israel Institute of Technology has developed an innovative approach that enables precise control of heat conduction in ways that do not occur naturally.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough could lead to new applications in energy harvesting and in protecting heat-sensitive devices. The research, conducted in collaboration with Prof. John R. Willis of the University of Cambridge, was <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/tx76-hshd\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers\u2019 approach is based on designing materials with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-nanomaterials-specific-ways.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">asymmetric and nonuniform microstructures<\/a>, inspired by similar methods previously developed for controlling light and sound\u2014but never applied before to heat conduction. The challenge in adapting these ideas stems from the fact that light and sound propagate as waves, while heat spreads through a spontaneous process known as diffusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Gal Shmuel of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion\u2014Israel Institute of Technology has developed an innovative approach that enables precise control of heat conduction in ways that do not occur naturally. The breakthrough could lead to new applications in energy harvesting and in protecting heat-sensitive devices. The research, conducted in collaboration with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228984","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=228984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}