Actively and reversibly controlling thermal conductivity in solid materials

C Liu, C Wu, Y Zhao, Z Chen, TL Ren, Y Chen… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
With the appearance of energy crisis, greenhouse effect, and heat management problem,
the control especially the active and reversible control of heat transport or thermal …

FourPhonon: An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity

Z Han, X Yang, W Li, T Feng, X Ruan - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
FourPhonon is a computational package that can calculate four-phonon scattering rates in
crystals. It is built within ShengBTE framework, which is a well-recognized lattice thermal …

Accurate description of high-order phonon anharmonicity and lattice thermal conductivity from molecular dynamics simulations with machine learning potential

Y Ouyang, C Yu, J He, P Jiang, W Ren, J Chen - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Phonon anharmonicity is critical for accurately predicting the material's thermal conductivity
(κ). However, its calculation based on the perturbation theory is a difficult and time …

Ab initio Boltzmann approach to coupled magnon-phonon thermal transport in ferromagnetic crystals

H Pan, ZK Ding, BW Zeng, NN Luo, J Zeng, LM Tang… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose an ab initio Boltzmann transport approach taking into account magnon-phonon
scattering (MPS) and three-phonon scattering simultaneously to accurately evaluate the …

Sampling-accelerated prediction of phonon scattering rates for converged thermal conductivity and radiative properties

Z Guo, Z Han, D Feng, G Lin, X Ruan - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The prediction of thermal conductivity and radiative properties is crucial. However,
computing phonon scattering, especially for four-phonon scattering, could be prohibitively …

Four-phonon scattering effect and two-channel thermal transport in two-dimensional paraelectric SnSe

J Sun, C Zhang, Z Yang, Y Shen, M Hu… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent years, increased attention has been paid to the study of four-phonon interactions
and diffusion transport in three-dimensional (3D) thermoelectric materials because they play …

High thermal conductivity of wurtzite boron arsenide predicted by including four-phonon scattering with machine learning potential

Z Liu, X Yang, B Zhang, W Li - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
Materials with high thermal conductivity are of great importance to the thermal management
of modern electronic devices. Recently, it was found that cubic boron arsenide (c-BAs) is a …

Softened bonding network leads to strong anharmonicity and weak hydrodynamics in graphene+

L Yu, A Chen, X Wang, H Wang, Z Qin, G Qin - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Graphene+, a novel carbon monolayer with sp 2-sp 3 hybridization, was recently reported to
exhibit unprecedented out-of-plane half-auxetic behavior and graphenelike Dirac properties …

Effects of thermal expansion and four-phonon interactions on the lattice thermal conductivity of the negative thermal expansion material

Z Tang, X Wang, C He, J Li, M Chen, C Tang, T Ouyang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
This work systematically investigates the lattice dynamics and phonon thermal transport
behavior of the typical negative thermal expansion (NTE) material, cubic ScF 3. By …

Low lattice thermal conductivity with two-channel thermal transport in the superatomic crystal

PH Du, C Zhang, T Li, Q Sun - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Designing novel crystalline materials composed of light and nontoxic elements, but with
ultralow thermal conductivity insensitive to temperature, has been a long-standing …