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

Carnot batteries are a quickly develo** group of technologies for medium and long
duration electricity storage. It covers a large range of concepts which share processes of a …

A huge amount of thermal energy is available close to material surfaces in radiative and
nonradiative states, which can be useful for matter characterization or energy harvesting …

Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number
of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology …

Direct conversion of heat to electricity via solid-state approaches is a rapidly advancing area
of research owing to its prospective use in recovering waste heat and in energy storage and …

The burning of fossil fuels in industry results in significant carbon emissions, and the heat
generated is often not fully utilized. For high-temperature industries, thermophotovoltaics …

This article provides an in-depth review of charge transport models utilized to analyze the
performance of near-field thermophotovoltaic (NF-TPV) devices, and a comprehensive …

Thermionic energy converters are solid‐state heat engines that have the potential to
produce electricity with efficiencies of over 30% and area‐specific power densities of 100 …

In this paper, an irreversible thermionic refrigerator model based on van der Waals
heterostructure with various irreversibilities is established by utilizing combination of non …

High-temperature stable emitters with spectral selective functionality are an absolute
condition for efficient conversion of thermal radiation into electricity using thermophotovoltaic …