{"id":245897,"date":"2026-10-24T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/what-makes-glass-good-at-conducting-heat-sound-holds-the-key"},"modified":"2026-10-24T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:33:37","slug":"what-makes-glass-good-at-conducting-heat-sound-holds-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/what-makes-glass-good-at-conducting-heat-sound-holds-the-key","title":{"rendered":"What makes glass good at conducting heat? Sound holds the key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Glass can keep a drink safely contained, protect a smartphone screen, or serve as a foundation for electronic components. But when it comes to controlling heat, this familiar material still holds some scientific mysteries. Now, researchers have identified a key factor governing how efficiently heat travels through silicate glass, offering a new guideline for designing glass materials for next-generation electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Tohoku University investigated 13 different silicate glass compositions to understand how their thermal properties influence heat conduction. Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/apl\/article\/129\/13\/132203\/3405557\/Dominant-role-of-sound-velocity-in-the-thermal\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Applied Physics Letters<\/i>, reveal that the speed of sound through glass plays the dominant role in determining its thermal conductivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThermal conductivity has been studied for a long time, yet it remains one of the least understood properties of non-crystalline materials,\u201d says Sohei Sukenaga, associate professor at Tohoku University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass can keep a drink safely contained, protect a smartphone screen, or serve as a foundation for electronic components. But when it comes to controlling heat, this familiar material still holds some scientific mysteries. Now, researchers have identified a key factor governing how efficiently heat travels through silicate glass, offering a new guideline for designing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245897","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=245897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}