Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

F Yang, Z Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, P **, P Zhuang… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Diffusion driven by temperature or concentration gradients is a fundamental mechanism of
energy and mass transport that inherently differs from wave propagation in both physical …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in polymers and composite dielectrics for thermal transport and high-temperature applications

L Wang, C Yang, X Wang, J Shen, W Sun… - Composites Part A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal transport performance of polymers and polymer composites has been widely
studied as electrical insulating encapsulations for the many applications in microelectronics …

Impact of moiré superlattice on atomic stress and thermal transport in van der Waals heterostructures

W Ren, S Lu, C Yu, J He, Z Zhang, J Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Moiré superlattices and their interlayer interactions in van der Waals heterostructures have
received surging attention for manipulating the properties of quantum materials. In this work …

The impact of interlayer rotation on thermal transport across graphene/hexagonal boron nitride van der Waals heterostructure

W Ren, Y Ouyang, P Jiang, C Yu, J He, J Chen - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure has aroused
great interest because of the unique Moiré pattern. In this study, we use molecular dynamics …

Reversible bipolar thermopower of ionic thermoelectric polymer composite for cyclic energy generation

C Chi, G Liu, M An, Y Zhang, D Song, X Qi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The giant thermopower of ionic thermoelectric materials has attracted great attention for
waste-heat recovery technologies. However, generating cyclic power by ionic thermoelectric …

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 …

Phase-locking diffusive skin effect

PC Cao, YG Peng, Y Li, XF Zhu - Chinese Physics Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the exceptional point (EP) induced phase transition and amplitude/phase
modulation in thermal diffusion systems. We start from the asymmetric coupling double …

Electric-field-induced modulation of thermal conductivity in poly (vinylidene fluoride)

S Deng, J Yuan, Y Lin, X Yu, D Ma, Y Huang, R Ji… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Phonon engineering focuses on heat transport modulation in atomic-scale. Different from
reported methods, it is shown that electric field can also modulate heat transport in …

Ab initio validation on the connection between atomistic and hydrodynamic description to unravel the ion dynamics of warm dense matter

Q Zeng, X Yu, Y Yao, T Gao, B Chen, S Zhang… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Ion dynamics exhibits inherent multiscale characteristics because it contains both atomistic
and hydrodynamic behaviors. Although atomic-scale ab initio molecular dynamics is the …

Modulating the thermal conductivity of crystalline nylon by tuning hydrogen bonds through structure poling

S Deng, D Ma, G Zhang, N Yang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The low thermal conductivity of polymers affects the reliability and functionality of devices.
Tuning the hydrogen bonds inside them is one strategy to modulate their thermal …