A heating apparatus includes a body, a chamber, and a thermal plate. The chamber is defined by the body. The chamber includes an upper region and a lower region. The thermal plate provides heat to the chamber. The thermal plate includes a coating. The coating includes a thermo-resistive layer. The thermo-resistive layer includes a polymeric portion and a nanostructure portion. The thermal plate is positioned in at least one location chosen from the upper region and the lower region of the chamber.

The invention provides liquid compositions comprising conductive carbon particles and/or carbon nanoparticles, a thickening agent, and a solvent. The carbon nanoparticles are preferably a mixture of graphite nanoplatelets and carbon nanotubes and the thickening agent is preferably a cellulose derivative. The liquid compositions can be used as ink to print highly conductive films that adhere to paper substrates.

A wiring sheet includes: a pseudo sheet structure including a plurality of conductive linear bodies arranged at intervals; a pair of electrodes; and a first power feeder provided for one of the electrodes and a second power feeder provided for the other of the electrodes. Assuming that the number of the conductive linear bodies is N, a resistance value of a n-th conductive linear body counted from a side at which the first power feeder and the second power feeder are provided is r.sub.n, and a resistance value of the electrodes is R, all of conditions represented by numerical formulae (F1), (F2), and (F3) below are satisfied. (F1): r.sub.1/R≤300 (F2): r.sub.n+1≤r.sub.n (In the formula (F2), n is an integer of 1 or more) (F3): 0<r.sub.1-r.sub.N

A resistance heater may include a polymer positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) material, arranged in a ring shape that defines a heater body; and an electrode assembly, comprising two or more electrodes arranged in contact with the heater body at two or more locations, wherein PPTC material comprises: a polymer matrix, the polymer matrix defining a PPTC body; and a conductive filler component, disposed in the polymer matrix.

Provided is a cordless hair dryer. The cordless hair dryer includes a housing including a body part gripped by a user and a head part having a blower tube therein, a battery disposed inside the body part, a blower fan disposed in one end of the head part, a support which is inserted into the other end of the head part and fixed to an inner side of the blower tube, and a planar heating element which is formed as a carbon nanotube sheet and disposed on the support to receive power from the battery.

A pseudo sheet structure is usable for a sensor configured to emit an electromagnetic wave in a band ranging from 20 GHz to 100 GHz. The pseudo sheet structure includes a plurality of conductive linear bodies arranged at an interval L satisfying a formula (1) below, 0.034×λ.sub.S≤L≤20 mm (1). In the formula (1), L is the interval between the plurality of conductive linear bodies, λ.sub.S is a wavelength of the electromagnetic wave emitted by the sensor, and a unit for each of L and λ.sub.S is mm.

A MEMS hotplate is used as a test substrate for characterizing a temperature-dependent fabrication process. According to a variant, an array of MEMS hotplates is used to provide multiple test substrates which can be simultaneously heated to different temperatures to provide multiple different temperature-dependent characterizations of the process.

A multilayer heating structure for controlling ice accumulation on a surface of an aircraft includes a carbon nano-tube (CNT) heater. The heater includes: a CNT layer; a first encapsulation layer disposed on a first side of the CNT layer formed of a first encapsulation layer thermoplastic material; and a second encapsulation layer disposed on a second side of the CNT layer formed of a second encapsulation layer thermoplastic material. The structure further includes for and aft composite structures. The first and second encapsulation layer thermoplastic materials have higher melting temperatures that one or both the fore composite structure thermoplastic material and the aft composite structure thermoplastic material.

The present disclosure relates to a surface heating heater pipe and an aerosol generating device including the same, and more particularly, to a surface heating heater pipe having improved performance by implementing a surface heating structure using graphene and an aerosol generating device including the same. A heater pipe for an aerosol generating device for transferring heat to an aerosol-forming article includes a body formed of metal and having a shape of a pipe having a space for accommodating the aerosol-forming article, a first insulating layer formed on an outer surface of the body, a graphene layer formed on the first insulating layer by deposition, and a second insulating layer formed on the graphene layer.

A wafer baking apparatus includes a chamber including a processing space, and a wafer heater disposed in the processing space and configured to support a wafer. The wafer heater includes a first heating plate, a heating resistance pattern disposed on a lower surface of the first heating plate, a second heating plate disposed on the first heating plate, and a heat dispersion layer interposed between the first and second heating plates and having thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity of materials of the first and second heating plates.