http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/ Engadget Comments for MIT gurus use polyethylene to suck heat away from your next CPU http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/"Intel is taking notice of the development"
and before we know it, Intel will hold a patent on this.
yes, that's how much I trust patent bureau.]]>Mar 10th 2010 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/really normally, colleges and universities DONT hold patents

....I believe]]>Mar 10th 2010 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
Just as long as it doesn't go from suck to blow.]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
Stanford (California) is one of the few universities that allows the students to own the Intellectual Property Rights to the work they create and research. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
Universities also get a few special perks at the USPTO when filing for patents.

They may choose to license their rights to Intel, sure, but Intel isn't going to be able to patent this in their name.]]>Mar 17th 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/CPU*]]>Mar 10th 2010 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
"this may make the new material especially useful for applications where it is important to draw heat away from an object, such as a computer processor chip."

A CPU was an example, so yes.]]>Mar 10th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/You are right to say this but the article said that heat conduction was ono way i.e. away from the CPU/GPU in the case of a computer. Kind of like a diode for heat, hehe.

To some extent this will offset the lower themal comductivity of metal and will permit (hopefully) more complex heat routing paths where neccessary.]]>Mar 10th 2010 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/lmao, if thats true, then talk about reading in-between the lines

but like always, these things are normally about the final potential.....all things as first are almost insignificant such as the first micro processor, and all those accusations about never needing more than ___ amount of memory...
(i forgot exactly what that amount was)]]>Mar 10th 2010 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
I can't point to a source, but I'm confident that the whole "one direction" thing is being confused with "both directions along the lanes formed by the polymer chains".
Kinda like how superconducting wires work.

As opposed to in 3 dimensions as with metals. ]]>Mar 10th 2010 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
awesome ]]>Mar 10th 2010 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
Agreed 100%. Creating this from PE sure is neat, but it is only a curiosity. The unidirectional flow of heat was definitely confused by the author. Heat likes to flow along molecular bonds. Their is no diode effect here. It's similar to carbon fiber, jut no where near the thermal performance of carbon fiber.

Pyrolytic carbon has conductivity reaching 1000+ W/m°K whereas aluminum at best is around 200W/m°K (6063 T4 is common heatsink material). Pyrolytic carbon is also unidirectional with a conductivity normal to the molecular grain of less than 10 W/m°K

I bet this process for creating PE can be used to create aligned carbon and then bake the hydrogen off. (if not something similar already is taking place). I'm also betting this PE material will show similar paramagnetic effects,]]>Mar 10th 2010 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/ that means it can possibly break the Universe! Forget about LHC, if this is true we are either all doomed, or we can build time machines to travel back in time!]]>Mar 10th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
LOL ...entropy causes a lot of confusion.

"the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time" - from wiki

'Tend' is not a good word to use in a theory ;0)
This theory doesn't take the underlying infinite fractal nature of energy into account, which is why things often become more and more complex, instead of less and less.

Take a look at the frost on your car in the morning, why isn't it uniform and simple? That's fractals for you, they are everywhere.]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
Dude look at your nose why is it so big?]]>Mar 10th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Actually it's 'Well you should see Polythene Pam. She's so good-looking but she looks like a man'.]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Oh and still, this is about polyethylene, not polythene.]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/I am aware that the lyrics are not the same as what i wrote... i was writing it in a cynical way so as to seem like it was just casual speech, but at least someone got it. Also, Polyethylene and Polythene are the same thing, one is simply the way some British people choose to spell and say it as a shortening:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polythene
there are 2 spellings shown]]>Mar 10th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
The power generating kids playground, was one that made me laugh. Kids pushing a roundabout was supposed to light a classroom all day? I'd love to see a class room that could be lit for 8 hours through 15 minutes of ~20W activity.

Then there was the spokeless bike (great until the first pothole you hit warps the wheel and makes the bike useless).

As for this invention: Metal heatsinks are effective at cooling BECAUSE they conduct heat in all directions (thus maximising the surface area for cooling). If you need to carry heat away from an area, oil filled pipes or pumped conducting liquids are pretty hard to beat.]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
in cold condition the heat generated from the body would be directed right back...

in hot conditions the heat from the air would be diverted away and not let under the clothes

if this is the case, we could expect pretty much a revolution everywhere...

but I doubt this is the case]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
This simply conducts heat along the fibers of the material and not in 3D as metal does. This, of course, works in both directions!]]>Mar 10th 2010 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
Anyways:
http://sciencewatch.com/inter/ins/10/10febTOP20ENG/

They are certainly a top school, but they are certainly not #1 in everything as US News would have you believe. ]]>Mar 10th 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/
If you go by the phds.org stats, MIT places 5th in EE grad programs for strictly citations and Illinois placed 9th, which is obviously not a good measure. Citations aren't the end all be all.

I respect your decision to place research interests over name recognition but don't make it seem like you are still sore over having to make the choice, since there is no way you can really be claiming that they are not arguably the best in some of these fields.

As far as I'm concerned, stats don't really have good enough resolution to specify anything better than top 3.]]>Mar 10th 2010 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/mit-gurus-use-polyethylene-to-suck-heat-away-from-your-next-cpu/Mar 10th 2010 2:35PM