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

Building on their dual functionality for solar photothermal absorption and storage,
slurries/dispersions of micro/nano-encapsulated phase-change materials (ePCMs) are …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

Predicting the thermal conductivity of glasses from first principles has hitherto been a very
complex problem. The established Allen-Feldman and Green-Kubo approaches employ …

Thermal conductivity is one of the most fundamental properties of solid materials. The
thermal conductivity of ideal crystal materials has been widely studied over the past …

The recent re‐emergence of halide perovskites has received escalating interest for
optoelectronic applications. In addition to photovoltaics, the multifunctional nature of halide …