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Cooling Plastic Monday, August 11, 2008 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Headlines >> General Technology   
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Thin films of a new polymer developed at Penn State change temperature in response to changing electric fields. The Penn State researchers, who reported the new material in Science last week, say that it could lead to new technologies for cooling computer chips and to environmentally friendly refrigerators. Changing the electric field rearranges the atoms in the polymer, which in turn govern its temperature; this is called the electrocaloric effect. (source: technologyreview.com)
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