{"id":229470,"date":"2026-01-21T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/newly-discovered-metallic-material-with-record-thermal-conductivity-upends-assumptions-about-heat-transport-limits"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:42:09","slug":"newly-discovered-metallic-material-with-record-thermal-conductivity-upends-assumptions-about-heat-transport-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/newly-discovered-metallic-material-with-record-thermal-conductivity-upends-assumptions-about-heat-transport-limits","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered metallic material with record thermal conductivity upends assumptions about heat transport limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-metallic-material-with-record-thermal-conductivity-upends-assumptions-about-heat-transport-limits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A UCLA-led, multi-institution research team has discovered a metallic material with the highest thermal conductivity measured among metals, challenging long-standing assumptions about the limits of heat transport in metallic materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeb1142\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, the study was led by Yongjie Hu, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. The team reported that metallic theta-phase tantalum nitride conducts heat nearly three times more efficiently than copper or silver, the best conventional heat-conducting metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UCLA-led, multi-institution research team has discovered a metallic material with the highest thermal conductivity measured among metals, challenging long-standing assumptions about the limits of heat transport in metallic materials. Published in Science, the study was led by Yongjie Hu, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229470","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=229470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}