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Surprising nanoscopic heat traps found in diamonds


University of Warwick scientists discover “hot spots” around atomic defects in diamonds – challenging assumptions about the world’s best heat conductor. Diamond, famous in material science for being the best natural heat conductor on Earth – but new research reveals that, at the atomic scale, it can briefly trap heat in unexpected ways.

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