Thermal rectifiers: Physical mechanisms and potential applications in buildings

H Zhang, Y Wu, T Shi, Q Wang, C Wang, Q Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings and reducing carbon dioxide emissions is an
urgent priority to achieve carbon neutrality goals. Thermal rectifiers are unique asymmetric …

Effective medium theory with hybrid impacts of phase symmetry and asymmetry for analyzing phase transition behavior

XC Zhou, WY Lin, FB Yang, XD Zhou, J Shen… - Europhysics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent research found a hysteresis phenomenon of electric conductance against metallic
phase ratio during the thermally driven metal-insulator transition in the vanadium trioxide …