The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pumping, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

Phase change materials (PCMs) are widely utilized in latent thermal energy storage and
thermal management systems due to their high-energy storage density, high latent heats …

Efficient waste heat dissipation has become increasingly challenging as transistor size has
decreased to nanometers. As governed by universal Umklapp phonon scattering, the …

Thermal energy storage technologies based on phase‐change materials (PCMs) have
received tremendous attention in recent years. These materials are capable of reversibly …

Phase change materials (PCMs) have been extensively characterized as constant
temperature latent heat thermal energy storage (TES) materials. Nevertheless, the …

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

Interest in new thermal diodes, regulators, and switches has been rapidly growing because
these components have the potential for rich transport phenomena that cannot be achieved …

Convective thermal metamaterials are artificial structures where convection dominates in the
thermal process. Due to the field coupling between velocity and temperature, convection …

Thermal rectification is a fundamental phenomenon for active heat flow control. Significant
thermal rectification is expected to exist in the asymmetric nanostructures, such as …

The thermal contact resistance (TCR) between polymer matrix composites (PMCs) imposes
the significant impacts on the design, processing and application of these materials. This …