The thermal and acoustic properties of innovative insulating systems used as building coatings were investigated: Granular silica aerogel was mixed with natural plaster in different percentages. This coating solution is transpiring and insulating, thanks to the use of a natural lime coat and aerogel, a highly porous light material with very low thermal conductivity. The thermal conductivity of ...

Using the dynamical mean field theory it is shown that interorbital Coulomb interactions in nonisotropic multiorbital materials give rise to a single Mott transition. Nevertheless, narrow and wide subbands exhibit different excitation spectra in the metallic and insulating phases. The close analogy between "multigap" insulating behavior and multigap superconductivity is pointed out.

The main heat engineering characteristics of modern traditional and innovative heat-insulating materials, their advantages, application fields are considered. Particular attention is paid to liquidceramic materials - thermal paints, which now actively used for insulation facades capital completed construction projects, technical life support systems, installations, separate elements. Interest i...

Photothermal beam deflection studies were carried out with GaAs epitaxial double layers grown on semi-insulating GaAs substrates. The impurity densities in thin epitaxial layers were found to influence the effective thermal diffusivity of the entire structure.

We describe and demonstrate a new class of devices that enable direct thermal conductance measurements on monocrystalline nanostructures. These are possible through our newly developed techniques for three-dimensional, successive surface nanomachining of GaAs-based heterostructures. Our methods allow the patterning of complex devices comprising electrically insulating, mesoscopic thermal conduc...

Thermostable heat-insulating composite materials based on solid magnesium phosphate and calcium binders, fly-ash glass hollow microspheres have been developed proposed. Thermal phase transformations studied as well strength characteristics of the initial composites products their thermal treatment up to 1000 °C determined. It is shown that prepared are thermally stable in temperature range 20 –...