Tutorial: MatML and Material Grapher Applications

This guide is designed to provide an aquaintance with the MatML Material Grapher and show some of its potential applications. The following problems are adaptations from a class on Transport Phenomena.

In many situations, product designs include parts whose only function is to conduct or resist the conduction of heat. Materials for these parts are thus chosen entirely on the basis of their thermal properties. Select the best material using the MatDL: MatML and Material Grapher for each of the following applications:

(a) Heat shield sandwiched between a hot body and a cold one which minimizes the steady heat flux between them.

(b) Light heat reservoir which must hold as much heat as possible per Kelvin per unit mass.

(c) Heat sink for a semiconductor device, which must minimize temperature difference for a given heat flux.