A 200-Year-Old Law of Physics Breaks Down at the Atomic Scale

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...
The Hindu

Bengaluru researchers overcome Carnot limit, age-old thermodynamic puzzle solved with novel micro heat engine

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have cracked an age-old thermodynamic puzzle by devising a novel micro heat ...
Manufacturing

Centuries in the making: the 200-year-old technology set to advance net zero

A British engine manufacturing start-up is taking inspiration from a 200 year-old principle of thermodynamics to achieve a significant breakthrough in engine technology, one which promises a ...
Nature

The power of a critical heat engine

Since its inception about two centuries ago thermodynamics has sparkled continuous interest and fundamental questions. According to the second law no heat engine can have an efficiency larger than ...
The New Indian Express

IISc scientists design 100 per cent efficient ‘micro heat engine’

BENGALURU: After years of struggle, a “micro heat engine”, that can produce maximum power at maximum efficiency, has been successfully designed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the ...
NextBigFuture

Realization of a micrometre-sized stochastic heat engine

“We’ve developed the world’s smallest steam engine, or to be more precise the smallest Stirling engine, and found that the machine really does perform work,” said Clemens Bechinger, a physicist at the ...