Nano Heat

An aspect of nano-tech that we havent covered as much is nano-mechanical and nano-mechanoelectrical(Piezo-electric technology). Nano scale mechanical devices are slowly becoming more prominent in devices, including nano-scale processors. One of the main problems with these devices is the same problem normal large-scale devices; heat. This heat prevents the implementation of these devices in several applications. Unfortunately the traditional methods of dissipating heat, fluid cooling and heat sinks are not feasable at this scale. In order to dissipate heat researches at MIT have been evaluating and have demonstrated the possibility of using linked carbon nano tubes as a nano-scale heat sinks.

Nano Lett. doi:10.1021/nl900399b