{"id":230191,"date":"2026-01-30T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/thermal-diode-design-promises-to-improve-heat-regulation-prolonging-battery-life"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:13:29","slug":"thermal-diode-design-promises-to-improve-heat-regulation-prolonging-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/thermal-diode-design-promises-to-improve-heat-regulation-prolonging-battery-life","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thermal diode\u2019 design promises to improve heat regulation, prolonging battery life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thermal-diode-design-promises-to-improve-heat-regulation-prolonging-battery-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New technology from University of Houston researchers could improve the way devices manage heat, thanks to a technique that allows heat to flow in only one direction. The innovation is known as thermal rectification, and was developed by Bo Zhao, an award-winning and internationally recognized engineering professor at the Cullen College of Engineering, and his doctoral student Sina Jafari Ghalekohneh. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prresearch\/abstract\/10.1103\/7p58-n6yv\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Research.<\/p>\n<p><b>A new way to steer heat<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This new technology gives engineers a new way to control <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-tesla-method-graphite-crystals.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">radiative heat<\/a> with the same precision that electronic diodes control electrical currents, which means longer-lasting batteries for cell phones, electric vehicles and even satellites. It also has the potential to change our approach to AI data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New technology from University of Houston researchers could improve the way devices manage heat, thanks to a technique that allows heat to flow in only one direction. The innovation is known as thermal rectification, and was developed by Bo Zhao, an award-winning and internationally recognized engineering professor at the Cullen College of Engineering, and his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,2028,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230191","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}