TBH, #PumplessLiquidCooling isn't new.

• I know folks who worked 35+ years in #MaterialScience and they could design that.

#Noctua's innovation is turn something from a #lab product that costs thousands of Euros in personnel hours design & setup into a consumer-ready product that doesn't require a #Hazmat-Suit - trained #chemist nor industrial- or A/C plumber to get started and that is "reasonable" to sell...

• And for that I'll give them credit once it hits [virtual] store shelves...

#Funfact: I do know someone who did some of the fundamental research on those flaments...

• Cuz #MaterialScience sometimes starts with just some chemists doing the professional version of "#FuckAroundAndFindOut!" in a lab and see what works and what doesn't.

And sometimes you get that nano-encapsulated stuff and the processes on how to homogenously mix those capsules in other materials.

• Other times you can get some narly lab accidents.

https://patents.google.com/patent/DE3022453A1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/DE3224454A1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/DE3761534D1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/DE102004057224A1/en

How Caulk Accidentally Killed Ornamental Buildings
#StewartHicks #Culture #History #Science #Engineering #materialScience #Architecture #CurtainWall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOXF-FION4

Newly fabricated crystals control interactions between high-frequency phonons and single quantum systems
#Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #MaterialScience
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-newly-fabricated-crystals-interactions-high.html

University of New Mexico Lab Develops 3D Printable, Bendable Concrete with 11.9% more Flexibility
#Science #MaterialScience #Engineering #3DPrinting
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/3d-printing-of-bendable-concrete

Just down across the bay, a Stanford U. Lab has found niobium phosphide can conduct electricity more efficiently than copper when reduced to ultrathin films .
#Science #Physics #MaterialScience
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/this-surprising-metal-beats-copper-as-an-ultrathin-wire-for-next-gen-electronics/

Quantum Dots • More Efficient Solar Panels
Ever heard of a quantum dot? What about an artificial atom? This is a real piece of nano-technology that has the potential to revolutionize fields like medicine, consumer electronics, and especially solar energy.
#Science #Physics #MaterialScience #Engineering #Solar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81JgczyzXy8

It's funny to me that even scientists and engineers casually throw around the term "plastic" like it's a specific material and not that could mean any of a near infinite array of vastly different materials.

Also, when they use "rubber" to mean all sorts of things that are not made of rubber at all.

#RandomThoughts #MaterialsScience
#MaterialScience

#RandomThoughts
Does everyone else call many different materials "rubber" too even though almost nothing anymore is actually made of real rubber?

Today's Jew of the Day is Dan Shechtman!

Dan Shechtman is a nobel prize winning chemist who pioneered the field of quasiperiodic crystals. A the time of his discovery, Schechtman was already an accomplished professor and on sabbatical. His discovery of a new type of crystalline structure has the potential to create new types of metals that have highly desirable properties, such as non-stick pans that don't require exotic or harmful chemicals, thinner and stronger metals for use in high heat applications such as spacecraft, and more.

Besides the Nobel Prize, Schechtman has nearly a dozen other high profile prizes, including the EMET Prize, the Israel Prize, Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Wolf Prize in physics.

“Surprisingly, about 40 minutes into the experiment, the damage reversed course. One end of the crack fused back together as if it was retracing its steps, leaving no trace of the former injury. Over time, the crack regrew along a different direction.

Hattar called it an “unprecedented insight.”

Boyce, who was aware of the theory, shared his findings with Demkowicz.

“I was very glad to hear it, of course,” Demkowicz said. The professor then recreated the experiment on a computer model, substantiating that the phenomenon witnessed at #Sandia was the same one he had theorized years earlier.

Their work was supported by the #DepartmentOfEnergy’s Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences; the National Nuclear Security Administration and the National Science Foundation.”

19/JUL/23 #uap / #MetaMaterial / #MaterialScience (Sandia Labs = 3 hr drive from #Roswell) <https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/healing_metals/>
source https://twitter.com/RobVena/status/1683440413649125376