Advances in thermal conductivity for energy applications: a review

Q Zheng, M Hao, R Miao, J Schaadt… - Progress in Energy, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Thermal conductivity is a crucial material property for a diverse range of energy
technologies, ranging from thermal management of high power electronics to thermal …

Engineering the thermal conductivity of polymer-bonded explosives by interfacial thermal resistance reduction and structural designs: a review

Z Liu, J Wang, G He, Z Yang - Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, 2025 - Springer
Polymer-bonded explosives (PBXs) are a kind of specialized functional composite,
exhibiting stringent comprehensive performance requirements due to their significant …

Perspective on ab initio phonon thermal transport

L Lindsay, A Katre, A Cepellotti, N Mingo - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT Coupling of the Peierls-Boltzmann equation with density functional theory
paved the way for predictive thermal materials discovery and a variety of new physical …

Understanding the thermal conductivity and Lorenz number in tungsten from first principles

Y Chen, J Ma, W Li - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Tungsten is known to have a Lorenz number L larger than the Sommerfeld value (L 0= π 2 k
B 2/3 e 2= 2.445× 10− 8 V 2/deg 2) by 30%. By performing fully first-principles calculations …

Atomistic insights into the origin of high‐performance thermoelectric response in hybrid perovskites

W Shi, M Yao, X Wu, T Zhou, X Yong, T Deng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their tantalizing prospect of heat‐electricity interconversion, hybrid organic–inorganic
perovskites have sparked considerable research interests recently. Nevertheless …

Ab initio Green-Kubo simulations of heat transport in solids: Method and implementation

F Knoop, M Scheffler, C Carbogno - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Ab initio Green-Kubo (aiGK) simulations of heat transport in solids allow for assessing lattice
thermal conductivity in anharmonic or complex materials from first principles. In this work, we …

First-principles modeling of thermal transport in materials: achievements, opportunities, and challenges

T Ma, P Chakraborty, X Guo, L Cao, Y Wang - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Thermal transport properties have attracted extensive research attentions over the past
decades. First-principles-based approaches have proved to be very useful for predicting the …

Superhigh flexibility and out-of-plane piezoelectricity together with strong anharmonic phonon scattering induced extremely low lattice thermal conductivity in …

MK Mohanta, A Rawat, N Jena… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Although CdX (X= S, Se) has been mostly studied in the field of photocatalysis,
photovoltaics, their intrinsic properties, such as, mechanical, piezoelectric, electron and …

Gauge fixing for heat-transport simulations

A Marcolongo, L Ercole, S Baroni - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Thermal and other transport coefficients were recently shown to be largely independent of
the microscopic representation of the energy (current) densities or, more generally, of the …

A Review of the Mg2(Si,Sn) Alloy System as Emerging Thermoelectric Material: Experimental and Modeling Aspects

D Pandel, MK Banerjee, AK Singh - Journal of Electronic Materials, 2021 - Springer
This paper reviews the basic understanding of Mg-based thermoelectric materials and
various approaches for increasing their thermoelectric efficiency. Recent developments in …