Massoud Kaviany is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Applied Physics Program at the University of Michigan, where he has been since 1986. His area of teaching and ...

Accelerating rates of heat uptake by oceans that don't fit current climate models can now be explained by quantum physics, ...

A surprising reversal of our usual understanding of the second law of thermodynamics shows that it may be possible for heat to move in the “wrong” direction, flowing from a cold area to a warm one ...

Thermoelectric materials, which convert heat into electricity, are valuable tools for capturing waste heat and turning it ...

One such promising avenue is thermal energy (electrical) storage (TES) systems, which store electricity as thermal energy by ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed a groundbreaking technology that could make converting heat into electricity ...

Its aim is to guide students and general readers to an understanding of how the physical world works; physics is presented as a human endeavour, with historical development forming a thread throughout ...

FORTY years ago our knowledge concerning the radiation and absorption of heat was very meagre. We believe that the earliest experiment in this direction is to be found in that wonderful book ...

which convert heat into electricity via light. Using an unconventional approach inspired by quantum physics, Rice engineer Gururaj Naik and his team designed a thermal emitter that can deliver ...