Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

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 necessity for the development of highly sensitive and selective detection techniques for
the investigation of biomolecules are inevitable. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based …

Thermal conductivity is critical to the stable operation, service life and reliability of electronic
equipment. Solving thermal management problems in electronic devices requires the …

Thermoelectric materials can convert heat into electrical energy, which can potentially be
used to improve the fuel efficiency of conventional heat engines. In recent decades …

The reduced dimensionality makes low-dimensional nanomaterials possessing diverse
unusual size-dependent transport properties, due to the distinct quantum confinement …

Photothermal catalysis is an emerging sub-discipline of heterogeneous catalysis. It is distinct
from both thermochemical catalysis driven by heat and photochemical catalysis powered by …

Printable electronics present a new era of wearable electronic technologies. Detailed
technologies consisting of novel ink semiconductor materials, flexible substrates, and …

The rapid development of faster, cheaper, and more powerful computing has led to some of
the most important technological and societal advances in modern history. However, the …

In electrically conductive solids, the Wiedemann-Franz law requires the electronic
contribution to thermal conductivity to be proportional to electrical conductivity. Violations of …