Efficient manipulation of thermal conductivity and fundamental understanding of the
microscopic mechanisms of phonon scattering in crystalline solids are crucial to achieve …

Smart textiles are composed of multi-structured functional materials capable of producing
sensory responses and energy in response to environmental, chemical and physical stimuli …

Motivated by the synthesized Cu 4 Ti Se 4 with ultralow room-temperature thermal
conductivity [Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 60, 9106 (2021)], we systematically investigate its …

Understanding the lattice dynamics and heat transport physics in the lead-free halide double
perovskites remains an outstanding challenge due to their lattice dynamical instability and …

Chemical bonding present in crystalline solids has a significant impact on how heat moves
through a lattice, and with the right chemical tuning, one can achieve extremely low thermal …

Structural non-centrosymmetry in semiconducting organic–inorganic hybrid halide
perovskites can introduce functionalities like anomalous photovoltaics and nonlinear optical …

As the periodic atomic arrangement of a crystal is made to a disorder or glassy-amorphous
system by destroying the long-range order, lattice thermal conductivity, κL, decreases, and …

Perovskite materials have attracted much attention in various optoelectronics applications
such as solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and photodetectors. Compared to multicrystalline …

The long-range periodic atomic arrangement or the lack thereof in solids typically dictates
the magnitude and temperature dependence of their lattice thermal conductivity (κlat) …

We report first-principle calculations of the recently synthesized Pb-free double perovskite
Cs2PtI6, which we found to have the potential to be an excellent thermoelectric material …