Progress in thermal rectification due to heat conduction in micro/nano solids

H Zhao, X Yang, C Wang, R Lu, T Zhang, H Chen… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the most important energy sources, the efficient utilization and management of
thermal energy have attracted much attention. Thermal rectification can be used for …

Flexible engineering of advanced phase change materials

P Cheng, Z Tang, Y Gao, P Liu, C Liu, X Chen - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Liquid phase leakage, intrinsic rigidity, and easy brittle failure are the longstanding
bottlenecks of phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage, which seriously …

Oscillating gadolinium thermal diode using temperature‐dependent magnetic forces

Q Zhu, K Zdrojewski, L Castelli… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance thermal diodes would enable improved waste heat scavenging and
thermal management systems. Prior study has indicated that the temperature (T)‐dependent …

Time-periodic thermal rectification in heterojunction thermal diodes

TJ Shimokusu, Q Zhu, N Rivera, G Wehmeyer - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal diodes that rectify time-periodic temperature (T) fields have been proposed for
applications in waste heat scavenging and thermal control. Although these applications …

Advances of phononics in 2012–2022

YF Ding, GM Zhu, XY Shen, X Bai, BW Li - Chinese Physics B, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

A fully passive thermal circuit for generating constant temperature difference from an oscillating heat source

W Guo, Z Meng, P Zhang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
The low-grade thermal energy with oscillating temperature is abundant and pervasive due to
periodic solar radiation, intermittent working of the devices and so on; while it cannot be …

Energy scavenging from the diurnal cycle with a temperature-doubler circuit and a self-adaptive photonic design

Z Zhang, X Zhao, Z Chen - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
A temperature-doubler circuit is the functional equivalent of a voltage-doubler in the thermal
domain. Effective temperature-doubler circuits could benefit energy scavenging from …

Thermal analysis of oscillating thermomagnetic devices beyond the lumped approximation

Q Zhu, TJ Shimokusu, G Wehmeyer - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
The temperature (T) dependent magnetization of materials near the Curie temperature has
been leveraged for thermomagnetic energy harvesting and thermal rectification. In these …

Teflon AF–Coated Nanotextured Aluminum Surfaces for Jumping Droplet Thermal Rectification

TJ Shimokusu, A Nathani, Z Liu, TF Yap… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Jumping droplet thermal diodes (JDTDs) are promising candidates to achieve thermal
rectification for next‐generation thermal control. However, most prior demonstrations of …