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Science 19 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5810, pp. 342 - 343
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138067
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Ordering Up the Minimum Thermal Conductivity of Solids

K. E. Goodson

Disorder usually interferes with heat conduction in most materials, but an exception has been found for insulators made from multiple layers of crystalline tungsten selenide.

The author is in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3030, USA. E-mail: goodson{at}stanford.edu

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