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Conduction during direct skin contact

Understanding of heat transfer during skin contact with cooler or hotter objects is important for design of portable electronics, thermal displays, artificial hands, haptic devices, and wearable thermal systems as well as for setting safety […]

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Microscale fundamentals of human sweat evaporation

Sweating is important to human thermoregulation, thermal comfort, illness diagnosis, and hygiene product development. However, little is known about how droplets emerge and evaporate from our sweat glands. The scale of these phenomena is in-between […]

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Human thermal exposure in extreme heat

Extreme heat is an invisible and deadly disaster with wide-ranging adverse effects on people’s health and well-being. It is increasing in frequency and severity, and its impacts are felt disproportionately by vulnerable populations. Yet, there […]

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Soft thermal systems

Heat transfer plays a part in nearly every industry. Consequently, finding routes of enhancing heat transfer can provide significant economic and societal benefits. Traditionally, heat transfer equipment is composed of metallic components that have hard […]

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Soft thermal materials for TIMs

Thermal management of integrated circuits (ICs) has become a limiting factor for transistor frequency, which has stalled around a few gigahertz over the past decade. The large thermal loads stem from extremely densely packed, nanometer- […]

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Cool future fashion for a hot planet

The development of high performance, yet ergonomic, personal cooling garments is not only important for current medical, military, and other specialized applications, but also for adaptation of broader population to future weather patterns. “Deadly heat […]