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

Recently, emerging phonon phenomena have been discovered and rapidly developed,
which have become an active hot research topic. In this review article, we present state-of …

The form of energy termed heat that typically derives from lattice vibrations, ie, phonons, is
usually considered as waste energy and, moreover, deleterious to information processing …

Ten years ago, DM Rowe introduced the bestselling CRC Handbook of Thermoelectrics to
wide acclaim. Since then, increasing environmental concerns, desire for long-life electrical …

Deriving macroscopic phenomenological laws of irreversible thermodynamics from simple
microscopic models is one of the tasks of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We consider …

Advances in the fabrication and characterization of nanoscale systems now allow for a better
understanding of one of the most basic issues in science and technology: the flow of heat at …

Recent results on theoretical studies of heat conduction in low-dimensional systems are
presented. These studies are on simple, yet non-trivial, models. Most of these are classical …

By coupling two nonlinear one dimensional lattices, we demonstrate a thermal diode model
that works in a wide range of system parameters. We provide numerical and analytical …

The question of how reversible microscopic equations of motion can lead to irreversible
macroscopic behaviour has been one of the central issues in statistical mechanics for more …