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Physics
Two flat metal surfaces touch across about one per cent of their area. The rest is air, and that is what cooks your laptop
A processor does not overheat because copper is a poor conductor. It overheats at the joins — and at the nanoscale, heat behaves in a way that is exactly opposite to the usual assumption that smaller is better. That inversion is a problem for chips and the entire basis of thermoelectrics.
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Nanotechnology
Graphene, twenty years on: where the wonder material actually shows up
A single layer of carbon won a Nobel Prize and a decade of hype. Two decades later, where does graphene genuinely deliver — and where is it still catching up to the headlines?
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