With the appearance of energy crisis, greenhouse effect, and heat management problem,
the control especially the active and reversible control of heat transport or thermal …

Phonon hydrodynamics is an exotic phonon transport phenomenon that challenges the
conventional understanding of diffusive phonon scattering in crystalline solids. It features a …

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

In this article, we review thermal transport in polymers with different morphologies from
aligned fibers to bulk amorphous states. We survey early and recent efforts in engineering …

The Tesla valve benefits the rectification of fluid flow in microfluidic systems,,,,–and inspires
researchers to design modern solid-state electronic and thermal rectifiers referring to fluid …

The capability of manipulating heat flux at the nanoscale has important implications in
thermal circuits and thermal management of electronics. In this work, by employing both the …

Rectification of heat flow via a thermal diode is not only of fundamental interest, but can also
enable a range of novel applications in thermal management and energy conversion …

With the development of chip technology, the density of transistors on integrated circuits is
increasing and the size is gradually shrinking to the micro-/nanoscale, with the consequent …

Designing polymers with desirable thermal or thermoelectric properties has been a great
goal in the field of organic functional materials. This is widely considered challenging …

Due to its great potential applications in thermal management, heat control, and quantum
information, phononics has gained increasing attentions since the first publication in Rev …