Nanoparticles found to violate second law of thermodynamics — gizmag.com

A rendering of a nanoparticle trapped in a laser and in thermal non-equilibrium (Image: Iñaki Gonzalez and Jan Gieseler) It may be a little late for April Fool’s, but some skepticism is nonetheless warranted when reading that researchers have shown nanoparticles to disobey a fundamental law of physics which dictates the flow of entropy and heat in, it was believed, any situation. Specifically, researchers from three universities theoretically proposed then demonstrated that a nanoparticle in a state of thermal non-equilibrium does not always behave as larger particles might under the same conditions, with implications for various fields of research.

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