http://www.physorg.com/news191687359.html
Excerpt: Muñoz, the paper's primary author, said the "nearly ballistic behavior" of phonons, quantum particles considered sound's equivalent to light's photons, makes the graphene material 10 times better than copper or gold at conducting heat. --- Back in the 1980s I worked at the Space Astronomy Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on a project that eventually flew in a couple of space shuttle flights. I recall the thermal control instrumentation they were Thermocouples. They are fascinating devices that depending on which way the current was flowing you could either heat or cool the device it was attached to. I wonder how efficient phonon technology is compared to thermocouple technology. Apparently, it has lots of other interesting applications as well. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
