Newly discovered unusual mechanism of heat transport in solids can enable ultra-efficient thermal insulators

Newly discovered unusual mechanism of heat transport in solids can enable ultra-efficient thermal insulators: In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have discovered an unusual mechanism of heat transport in solids that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of how heat flows in crystalline materials with local disorder. This can have implications in next-generation thermoelectrics and thermal management technologies. Heat in solids is typically carried by phonons, which generally behave like