Q&A: University of Virginia’s Patrick Hopkins Studies How to Regulate a Material’s Thermal Conductivity

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-33233
Published November 01, 2018 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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  • English

Professor Hopkins and University of Virginia colleagues — in collaboration with materials scientists at Penn State, the University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology — have studied a material that can dynamically regulate its thermal properties, switching back and forth between insulating and cooling based on the amount of water that is present.