The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many
interacting objects. This review examines recent progress on the topic of radiative heat …

Conversion of heat to electricity via solid-state devices is of great interest and has led to
intense research of thermoelectric materials,. Alternative approaches for solid-state heat-to …

Thermal radiation is one of the most universal physical phenomena, and its study has
played a key role in the history of modern physics. Our understanding of this subject has …

Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number
of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology …

Recent experiments,,, have demonstrated that radiative heat transfer between objects
separated by nanometre-scale gaps considerably exceeds the predictions of far-field …

Radiative thermal transport via the fluctuating electromagnetic near-field has recently
attracted increasing attention due to its fundamental importance and its impact on a range of …

Understanding energy transfer via near‐field thermal radiation is critical for the future
advances of nanotechnology. Evanescent waves and photon tunneling are responsible for …

Due to increasing oil and gas demand, the depletion of fossil resources, serious global
warming, efficient energy systems and new energy conversion processes are urgently …

Generally, waste heat is redundantly released into the surrounding by anthropogenic
activities without strategized planning. Consequently, urban heat islands and global …