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A study from UMass Amherst shows that defective fillers in polymers improve heat dissipation by 160 %, offering new insights ...

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In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices -- ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat -- a team of researchers made a discovery: ...

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