Researchers looking at heat on molecular level

Heat generated by a laser pulse – nearly 1,500 degrees worth of it – blows through the chains of hydrocarbon molecules three times faster than the speed of sound in air.

But it isn't fast enough to escape the grasp of University of Illinois researchers who want to know how heat moves and dissipates on a molecular level, in part because of the implications it has for technology on the nanoscale and up.

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