Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

The introduction of engineered resonance phenomena on surfaces has opened a new
frontier in surface science and technology. Pillared phononic crystals, metamaterials, and …

Ultrathin perfect absorber (UPA) enables efficient photothermal conversion (PC) in
renewable chemical and energy systems. However, it is challenging so far to obtain efficient …

The thermoelectric effect allows direct and reversible conversion of thermal energy into
electricity. As a result, thermoelectric generators and coolers can be an essential part of the …

Understanding the design rules to obtain materials that enable a tight control of phonon
transport over a broad range of frequencies would aid major developments in thermoelectric …

Understanding and controlling vibrations in condensed matter is emerging as an essential
necessity both at fundamental level and for the development of a broad variety of …

Energy transfer in small nano-sized systems can be very different from that in their
macroscopic counterparts due to reduced dimensionality, interaction with surfaces, disorder …

The widespread use of nanostructures and nanomaterials has opened up a whole new
realm of challenges in thermal management, but also leads to possibilities for energy …

The design and fabrication of phononic crystals (PnCs) hold the key to control the
propagation of heat and sound at the nanoscale. However, there is a lack of experimental …

Nitrogenated holey graphene (NHG), a two-dimensional graphene-derived material with a C
2 N stoichiometry and evenly distributed holes and nitrogen atoms in its basal plane, has …