The rapid development of faster, cheaper, and more powerful computing has led to some of
the most important technological and societal advances in modern history. However, the …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Polymer‐based thermal interface materials (TIMs) with excellent thermal conductivity and
electrical resistivity are in high demand in the electronics industry. In the past decade …

The reduced dimensionality makes low-dimensional nanomaterials possessing diverse
unusual size-dependent transport properties, due to the distinct quantum confinement …

Thermoelectric generators have attracted a wide research interest owing to their ability to
directly convert heat into electrical power. Moreover, the thermoelectric properties of …

In electrically conductive solids, the Wiedemann-Franz law requires the electronic
contribution to thermal conductivity to be proportional to electrical conductivity. Violations of …

In this review, we discuss some of the representative strategies of phonon engineering by
categorizing them into the methods affecting each component of phonon thermal …

Although it has been qualitatively demonstrated that surface roughness can reduce the
thermal conductivity of crystalline Si nanowires (SiNWs), the underlying reasons remain …

This review discusses recent advances in materials engineering to control thermal
conductivity. We begin by presenting theories of heat conduction for general material …