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 …

Personal thermal management (PTM) is a promising approach for maintaining the thermal
comfort zone of the human body while minimizing the energy consumption of indoor …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced material research that were previously intractable,
for example, the machine learning (ML) has been able to predict some unprecedented …

The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

The description of phonon heat conduction has typically been based on Fourier diffusion
theory. However, over the past three decades, a host of interesting phonon transport …

The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pum**, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

Aerogels, the lightest artificial solid materials characterized by low density and thermal
conductivity, high porosity, and large specific surface area, have attracted increasing …

Phase change materials (PCMs) are widely utilized in latent thermal energy storage and
thermal management systems due to their high-energy storage density, high latent heats …

Thermal energy storage technologies based on phase‐change materials (PCMs) have
received tremendous attention in recent years. These materials are capable of reversibly …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …