Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

The family of 2D transition metal carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides has expanded rapidly
since the discovery of Ti3C2 in 2011. About 20 different MXenes have been synthesized …

Q uantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of open-source computer codes for quantum
simulations of materials using state-of-the-art electronic-structure techniques, based on …

Two-dimensional materials have gained immense attention for technological applications
owing to their characteristic properties. MXene is one of the fast-growing family of 2D …

The description of phonon heat conduction has typically been based on Fourier diffusion
theory. However, over the past three decades, a host of interesting phonon transport …

Heat management has become more and more critical, especially in miniaturized modern
devices, so the exploration of highly thermally conductive materials with electrical insulation …

Crystals and glasses exhibit fundamentally different heat conduction mechanisms: the
periodicity of crystals allows for the excitation of propagating vibrational waves that carry …

In 2011, with the successful isolation of Ti3C2, a door of 2D layered MXene has been
opened and received growing attention from researchers. MXene refers to a family of two …

This fully updated second edition of The Physics of Phonons remains the most
comprehensive theoretical discussion devoted to the study of phonons, a major area of …