In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices—ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent ...

New research challenges the common belief that perfect fillers are the best choice for creating thermally conductive polymers ...

The UMass Amherst-led team is challenging the common belief that perfect fillers are the best choice for creating thermally ...

This research, published in Science Advances, experimentally and theoretically found that polymers (commonly referred to as plastics) made with thermally conductive fillers containing defects ...

The UMass Amherst-led team challenges the conventional wisdom that perfect fillers are better for making thermally conductive ...

This research, published in Science Advances, experimentally and theoretically found that polymers (commonly referred to as ...

The UMass Amherst-led team challenges the conventional wisdom that perfect fillers are better for making thermally conductive polymers AMHERST, Mass. — In the quest to design the next generation of ...

These illustrations show polymers (the long tubes) filled with perfect (top, graphite) or imperfect (bottom, graphite oxide) fillers. Image Credit: University of Massachusetts Amherst According to the ...