Rice University scientists have created a nano-infused oil that could greatly enhance the ability of devices as large as electrical transformers and as small as microelectronic components to shed excess heat. Research in the lab of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan could raise the efficiency of such transformer oils by as much as 80 percent with an environmentally … [Read more...]
Yale Engineers Invent Magnetic Fluid Pump with No Moving Parts
In a study published today in Physical Review B, Yale electrical engineering professor Hur Koser and colleagues from the University of Georgia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrate for the first time an approach that allows ferrofluids to be pumped by magnetic fields alone. Their approach could lead to highly compact, integrated, quiet, and efficient liquid … [Read more...]
