Air conditioning and refrigeration consume about 20% of global electricity, relying on century-old vapor-compression technologies. These systems are energy-intensive, noisy, and contribute to ...

A research team has successfully developed a new composition and processing technology for transparent plasma-resistant ...

As entropy increases, eventually there’s no more order to make chaos from, and ultimately interesting things will stop happening – a long, slow “heat death”. Receive a weekly dose of ...

The continuous increase in entropy is a law of nature. Due to entropy’s relationship with possible states, it is also related to randomness. Additionally, it is associated with heat loss. The second ...

Dr. Ho Jin Ma's research team from the Nano Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), ...

A mix of equal portions of metal ion precursors on a film of graphene oxide (left) are subjected to a photoflash from a Xenon lamp. Heated to more than 1,000 K, the precursors transform into ...

The cooling effect means that it is an endothermic process (D H>0) so that TD S is positive. Thus the entropy of the rubber band increases when it goes from the stretched state to the natural state.

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, to put it more precisely: that entropy ...

“Our work highlights the potential of a kind of high-entropy structure ... film that purportedly exhibits superior water and damp-heat resistance. With this film, they then constructed a ...