Interfacial thermal resistance: Past, present, and future

J Chen, X Xu, J Zhou, B Li - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
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 …

A review of experimental and computational advances in thermal boundary conductance and nanoscale thermal transport across solid interfaces

A Giri, PE Hopkins - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial thermal resistance is the primary impediment to heat flow in materials and devices
as characteristic lengths become comparable to the mean‐free paths of the energy carriers …

Impact of bimetallic interface design on heat generation in plasmonic Au/Pd nanostructures studied by single-particle thermometry

J Gargiulo, M Herran, IL Violi, A Sousa-Castillo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Localized surface plasmons are lossy and generate heat. However, accurate measurement
of the temperature of metallic nanoparticles under illumination remains an open challenge …

Thermal conductivity of materials under pressure

Y Zhou, ZY Dong, WP Hsieh, AF Goncharov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The thermal conductivities of materials are extremely important for many practical
applications, such as in understanding the thermal balance and history of the Earth, energy …

Measurement techniques for thermal conductivity and interfacial thermal conductance of bulk and thin film materials

D Zhao, X Qian, X Gu, SA Jajja… - Journal of …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012

DG Cahill, PV Braun, G Chen, DR Clarke… - Applied physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Functionalized graphene enables highly efficient solar thermal steam generation

J Yang, Y Pang, W Huang, SK Shaw, J Schiffbauer… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The ability to efficiently utilize solar thermal energy to enable liquid-to-vapor phase transition
has great technological implications for a wide variety of applications, such as water …

Electrically gated molecular thermal switch

M Li, H Wu, EM Avery, Z Qin, DP Goronzy, HD Nguyen… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Controlling heat flow is a key challenge for applications ranging from thermal management
in electronics to energy systems, industrial processing, and thermal therapy. However …

Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

P Jiang, X Qian, R Yang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

Hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials and their applications

D Ahmad, I Van Den Boogaert, J Miller… - Energy Sources, Part …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Wettability of a material's surface plays a significant role in how fluids interact with such
surfaces. Wetting behavior is universal but can vary depending on the chemical nature of the …