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High Thermal Conductivity Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

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Every university student becomes familiar with the concept of thermal conductivity, a fundamental physical property of materials, through his or her textbooks. Initial work on high thermal conductivity was carried out in 1911 by Eucken, who discovered that diamond was a reasonably good conductor for heat at room temperature. Theoretical support for this discovery was established by Debye in 1914.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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