Interfacial thermal resistance: Past, present, and future

J Chen, X Xu, J Zhou, B Li - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

A review of simulation methods in micro/nanoscale heat conduction

H Bao, J Chen, X Gu, B Cao - ES Energy & Environment, 2018 - espublisher.com
Significant progress has been made in the past two decades about the micro/nanoscale
heat conduction. Many computational methods have been developed to accommodate the …

Experimental study of thermal rectification in suspended monolayer graphene

H Wang, S Hu, K Takahashi, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Thermal rectification is a fundamental phenomenon for active heat flow control. Significant
thermal rectification is expected to exist in the asymmetric nanostructures, such as …

Unraveling thermal transport correlated with atomistic structures in amorphous gallium oxide via machine learning combined with experiments

Y Liu, H Liang, L Yang, G Yang, H Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal transport properties of amorphous materials are crucial for their emerging
applications in energy and electronic devices. However, understanding and controlling …

Multilayer in-plane graphene/hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures: Insights into the interfacial thermal transport properties

T Liang, M Zhou, P Zhang, P Yuan, D Yang - International Journal of Heat …, 2020 - Elsevier
Combining both vertical and in-plane two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures opens up the
possibility to create an unprecedented architecture using 2D atomic layer building blocks …

Advancing thermoelectric materials: a comprehensive review exploring the significance of one-dimensional nano structuring

MMR Al-Fartoos, A Roy, TK Mallick, AA Tahir - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amidst the global challenges posed by pollution, escalating energy expenses, and the
imminent threat of global warming, the pursuit of sustainable energy solutions has become …

Thermal transport in 3D nanostructures

H Zhan, Y Nie, Y Chen, JM Bell… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work summarizes the recent progress on the thermal transport properties of 3D
nanostructures, with an emphasis on experimental results. Depending on the applications …

Randomness-induced phonon localization in graphene heat conduction

S Hu, Z Zhang, P Jiang, J Chen, S Volz… - The journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Through nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, we report the direct numerical
evidence of the coherent phonons participating in thermal transport at room temperature in …

Phonon lateral confinement enables thermal rectification in asymmetric single-material nanostructures

Y Wang, A Vallabhaneni, J Hu, B Qiu, YP Chen… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We show that thermal rectification (TR) in asymmetric graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is
originated from phonon confinement in the lateral dimension, which is a fundamentally new …

Si/Ge superlattice nanowires with ultralow thermal conductivity

M Hu, D Poulikakos - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
The engineering of nanostructured materials with very low thermal conductivity is a
necessary step toward the realization of efficient thermoelectric devices. We report here the …