India, Feb. 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have discovered an unusual mechanism of heat transport in solids that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of how heat flows in crystalline materials with local disorder. This can have implications in next-generation thermoelectrics and thermal management technologies.
Heat in solids is typically carried by phonons, which generally behave like particles that scatter as they move through a crystal lattice. This classical "phonon gas" picture has guided materials design for decades.
Researchers at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, an autonomous institute of Department of Science and...