Breathing walls: The design of porous materials for heat exchange and decentralized ventilation
Published in Energy and Buildings

Researchers at Harvard University studied how pores in building materials can be designed,
such that incoming fresh air can be efficiently tempered while conduction losses are kept to a minimum.
With the use of gSKIN heat flux sensors they could determine the total convective heat transfer
in blowing and sucking mode through porous materials.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.05.036

Bioinspired microactuators for zero-power heat flux regulation
Published in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Researchers from ETH Zurich developed a zero-power, bioinspired heat sink where the thermal resistance is reduced with increasing ambient temperature whereas the heat flux through the heat sink is increased. This effect is established by microactuators with a very high temperature sensitivity. With the usage of gSKIN sensors they could characterize the properties of the developed device.

DOI:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7994478/

Thermal bridge effect of vertical diagonal tie connectors in precast concrete sandwich panels: an experimental and computational study

greenTEG flies to the International Space Station!

Dynamic Model-Based Monitoring of Human Thermal Comfort for Real-Time and Adaptive Control Applications

Passive cooling of Li-Ion cells with direct-metal-laser-sintered aluminium heat exchangers filled with phase change materials

Aero- and thermodynamical optimization of cooling tunnels for chocolate systems

Reduced-scale hot box method for thermal characterization of window insulation materials

Thermal signature of ion intercalation and surface redox reactions mechanisms in model pseudocapacitive electrodes

The Cold Tube: Membrane assisted radiant cooling for condensation free outdoor comfort in the tropics