Super thin heat shield lets your phone keep its cool

In extreme cases, the heat that phones and laptops give off can cause batteries to explode, but a heat shield just 10 atoms thick may cool things down.

Tom Abate-Stanford • futurity
Aug. 19, 2019 • ~6 min

Getting to the bottom of the “boiling crisis”

New understanding of heat transfer in boiling water could lead to efficiency improvements in power plants.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
April 4, 2019 • ~7 min

Thomas McKrell, research scientist and mentor in nuclear science and engineering, dies at 47 | MIT News

Lauded director of the MIT Thermal Hydraulics and Materials in Extreme Environments Laboratory was a consummate experimentalist and passionate teacher.

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering • mit
June 13, 2017 • ~5 min

An extreme close-up on heat transfer | MIT News

New formula identifies limits to nanoscale heat transfer, may help optimize devices that convert heat to electricity.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 24, 2015 • ~8 min

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