Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

In the decade since the introduction of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures for designer
devices, there has been an abundance of studies on the artificial assembly of vdW …

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

Conjugated polymers promise inherently flexible and low-cost thermoelectrics for powering
the Internet of Things from waste heat,. Their valuable applications, however, have been …

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

Breakthroughs in molecular and materials discovery require meaningful outliers to be
identified in existing trends. As knowledge accumulates, the inherent bias of human intuition …

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 …

Phase change energy storage technology, which can solve the contradiction between the
supply and demand of thermal energy and alleviate the energy crisis, has aroused a lot of …

Two different heat-transport mechanisms are discussed in solids. In crystals, heat carriers
propagate and scatter particlelike as described by Peierls's formulation of the Boltzmann …

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