Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

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

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 …

Conjugated polymers promise inherently flexible and low-cost thermoelectrics for powering
the Internet of Things from waste heat,. Their valuable applications, however, have been …

The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …

Spatially resolved vibrational mapping of nanostructures is indispensable to the
development and understanding of thermal nanodevices, modulation of thermal transport …

Thermal transport at the nanoscale level is attracting attention not only because of its
physically interesting features such as the peculiar behavior of phonons due to their …

Thermal conductivity and interfacial thermal conductance play crucial roles in the design of
engineering systems where temperature and thermal stress are of concerns. To date, a …