Due to cheap, faulty batteries, hoverboards are catching fire and exploding. These self-balancing scooters run on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, and because consumers are looking for more affordable items, they are buying hoverboards with cheaper batteries installed. Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Jay Whitacre, says, … [Read more...]
New Cooling System for Automotive Battery is Simpler and Offers Higher Cooling Rates
As electric cars go to higher charging rates, better cooling will be needed. Direct Expansion, or DX, is a new cooling system that “uses the same refrigerant as used in your vehicle’s air conditioning system to cool the battery directly,” according to HybridCars.com. DX eliminates liquid glycol, even has a cooling rate of 3-4 times higher, and simplifies the battery’s … [Read more...]
New High-Rise Nano-Materials Incorporate Thermal Cooling Layers
Researchers and Stanford engineers are creating a new approach to the layout of computer processors and memory chips (called Nano-Engineered Computing Systems Technology, or N3XT) where processors and memory are stacked on top of one another like a high-rise architecture. This could cause immediate problems involving heat, but Stanford mechanical engineers Kenneth Goodson and … [Read more...]
The World’s First Liquid-Cooled Gaming Laptop
The Asus ROG GX700 has been introduced as the world’s first liquid-cooled gaming laptop. Asus ROG Global Marketing Director Derek Yu created the inch-thick laptop with a Nvidia GTX 980M graphics card, and with the cooling system as a “massive, alien-like pod filled with the extra hardware” that plugs right into the laptop, according to TechRadar.com. The liquid cooling system … [Read more...]
Electronics Cooling December 2015 Issue Now Online
Don’t miss out on the December 2015 Issue of Electronics Cooling, which includes feature articles on A Figure of Merit for Smart Phone Thermal Management; Saving Energy with Every Byte: A Concerted Effort for Efficient Thermal Management of Date Centers; Enhanced Pool oiling using Separate Liquid-Vapor Pathways for Cooling High Heat Flux Electronics Devices; and more. If you … [Read more...]
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