Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Wide range continuously tunable and fast thermal switching based on compressible graphene composite foams

  • Tingting Du,
  • Zixin Xiong,
  • Luis Delgado,
  • Weizhi Liao,
  • Joseph Peoples,
  • Rajath Kantharaj,
  • Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury,
  • Amy Marconnet,
  • Xiulin Ruan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25083-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Current designs of thermal switches are limited by a lack of continuous tunability, low switching ratio, low speed, and not being scalable. Here the authors report a continuously tunable, wide-range, fast, and cost effective thermal switching approach that is demonstrated using compressible graphene composite foams.