Comment by nielsbot
4 days ago
> In the form of tantalum nitride that Hu and his colleagues studied, the atomic structure of the crystal lattice lets phonons travel unusually long distances with minimal interference.
Sort of like a thermal (phonon) superconductor.. Maybe there's a true thermal superconductor out there to be discovered...
"Maybe there's a true thermal superconductor out there to be discovered..."
it's called a vacume, and honestly I believe that for heat, thats it, given it's role in physics....
Vacuum? It’s a terrible conductor. Closer to a perfect insulator.
It's a perfect conductor of infrared radiation which is how we cool space stations without ambient air to remove the heat via convection.
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