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 …

Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made in micro-and nanoscale
heat transfer. Numerous computational methods have been developed to quantitatively …

Wave effects of phonons play an important role in modulating thermal transport in
nanostructures. In this paper, we calculated the thermal conductivity of a species of …

The notion of a locally resonant metamaterial—widely applied to light and sound—has
recently been introduced to heat, whereby the thermal conductivity is reduced primarily by …

As a critical way to modulate thermal transport in nanostructures, phonon resonance
hybridization has become an issue of great concern in the field of phonon engineering. In …

Nanophononic metamaterials have broad applications in fields such as heat management,
thermoelectric energy conversion, and nanoelectronics. Phonon resonance in pillared low …

The cage structure and low lattice thermal conductivity κ L make the schwarzites a suitable
candidate for building the host-guest system favorable for thermoelectric applications. In …

According to Fourier's law, a temperature difference across a material results in a linear
temperature profile and a thermal conductance that decreases inversely proportional to the …

Partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) is the most widely used polymer in the chemical
method of enhanced oil recovery (EOR). However, it is not recommended for reservoirs with …

Phonon surface scattering is of great importance for understanding thermal transport in
nanostructured materials and has been widely utilized to tailor thermal properties. However …