The form of energy termed heat that typically derives from lattice vibrations, ie, phonons, is
usually considered as waste energy and, moreover, deleterious to information processing …

Deriving macroscopic phenomenological laws of irreversible thermodynamics from simple
microscopic models is one of the tasks of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We consider …

This paper intends to develop geopolymer-based composites for geothermal energy
applications. Both silicon carbide (SiC) sand and SiC powder were applied to optimize the …

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

By coupling two nonlinear one dimensional lattices, we demonstrate a thermal diode model
that works in a wide range of system parameters. We provide numerical and analytical …

Recent results on theoretical studies of heat conduction in low-dimensional systems are
presented. These studies are on simple, yet non-trivial, models. Most of these are classical …

Transport of electrons in a single molecule junction is the simplest problem in the general
subject area of molecular electronics. In the past few years, this area has been extended to …

We address the problem of heat conduction in 1D nonlinear chains; we show that, acting on
the parameter which controls the strength of the on-site potential inside a segment of the …

Logic gates are basic digital elements for computers. We build up thermal logic gates that
can perform similar operations as their electronic counterparts. The thermal logic gates are …

Memory is an indispensible element for a computer in addition to logic gates. In this Letter
we report a model of thermal memory. We demonstrate via numerical simulation that thermal …