Phonon-engineered extreme thermal conductivity materials

X Qian, J Zhou, G Chen - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Electrically gated molecular thermal switch

M Li, H Wu, EM Avery, Z Qin, DP Goronzy, HD Nguyen… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Controlling heat flow is a key challenge for applications ranging from thermal management
in electronics to energy systems, industrial processing, and thermal therapy. However …

Low voltage–driven high-performance thermal switching in antiferroelectric PbZrO3 thin films

C Liu, Y Si, H Zhang, C Wu, S Deng, Y Dong, Y Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Effective control of heat transfer is vital for energy saving and carbon emission reduction. In
contrast to achievements in electrical conduction, active control of heat transfer is much …

Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale

A Sood, AD Poletayev, DA Cogswell… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrochemical ion insertion involves coupled ion–electron transfer reactions, transport of
guest species and redox of the host. The hosts are typically anisotropic solids with 2D …

Flexible and elastic thermal regulator for multimode intelligent temperature control

C Chen, H Yu, T Lai, J Guo, M Qin, Z Qu, Y Feng… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As nonlinear thermal devices, thermal regulators can intelligently respond to temperature
and control heat flow through changes in heat transfer capacities, which allows them to …

Reversible two-way tuning of thermal conductivity in an end-linked star-shaped thermoset

CM Hartquist, B Li, JH Zhang, Z Yu, G Lv, J Shin… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polymeric thermal switches that can reversibly tune and significantly enhance their thermal
conductivities are desirable for diverse applications in electronics, aerospace, automotives …

Defects in complex oxide thin films for electronics and energy applications: challenges and opportunities

W Li, J Shi, KHL Zhang, JL MacManus-Driscoll - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex transition-metal oxides (TMOs) are critical materials for cutting-edge electronics
and energy-related technologies, on the basis of their intriguing properties including …

Magnetic measurements applied to energy storage

X Li, L Zhang, H Liu, Q Li, Y Hou - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
How to increase energy storage capability is one of the fundamental questions, it requires a
deep understanding of the electronic structure, redox processes, and structural evolution of …

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 …