{"id":244998,"date":"2026-10-06T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/stretching-boosts-thermal-and-electrical-conductivity-in-new-nanocomposite"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:13:12","slug":"stretching-boosts-thermal-and-electrical-conductivity-in-new-nanocomposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/stretching-boosts-thermal-and-electrical-conductivity-in-new-nanocomposite","title":{"rendered":"Stretching boosts thermal and electrical conductivity in new nanocomposite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stretching-boosts-thermal-and-electrical-conductivity-in-new-nanocomposite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joint research team led by professors Seunghyun Baik and Joonmyung Choi from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed a new nanocomposite material whose electrical and thermal conductivities increase as it is stretched. The team successfully applied it to stable heat dissipation for foldable phones.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/adfm.77937\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Advanced Functional Materials<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones and electronic devices generate significant heat during operation, which can cause performance throttling or shorten device lifespan if not properly cooled. Next-generation flexible electronics that bend or stretch face particular challenges because heat cannot easily escape during deformation. Typically, stretching a material increases the distance between embedded particles, which reduces both thermal and electrical conduction. However, the research team designed a material that overturns this conventional understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint research team led by professors Seunghyun Baik and Joonmyung Choi from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed a new nanocomposite material whose electrical and thermal conductivities increase as it is stretched. The team successfully applied it to stable heat dissipation for foldable phones. The research is published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1512,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244998","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=244998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}