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

Polymers are widely used in industry and in our daily life because of their diverse
functionality, light weight, low cost and excellent chemical stability. However, on some …

Durable hydrophobic materials have attracted considerable interest in the last century.
Currently, the most popular strategy to achieve hydrophobic coating durability is through the …

Polymers are usually considered as thermal insulators, and their applications are limited by
their low thermal conductivity. However, recent studies have shown that certain polymers …

Effective thermal management is quite urgent for electronics owing to their ever-growing
integration degree, operation frequency and power density, and the main strategy of thermal …

Thermal conduction in polymeric materials and across interfaces is of considerable scientific
and technological importance nevertheless only very few studies are available without …

Heating and cooling represent a significant portion of overall energy consumption of our
society. Due to the diffusive nature of thermal energy, thermal insulation is critical for energy …

Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

The demand for flexible conductive materials has motivated many recent studies on
conductive polymer–based materials. However, the thermal conductivity of conductive …

A vibrational model of transport properties of dense fluids assumes that solid-like oscillations
of atoms around their temporary equilibrium positions dominate the dynamical picture. The …