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

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 …

Thermoelectric generators have attracted a wide research interest owing to their ability to
directly convert heat into electrical power. Moreover, the thermoelectric properties of …

In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

Recently, emerging phonon phenomena have been discovered and rapidly developed,
which have become an active hot research topic. In this review article, we present state-of …

Lattice heat conduction can be modulated via nanostructure interfaces. Although advances
have been made by viewing phonons as particles, the controllability should be enhanced by …

Thermal metamaterials have amazing properties in heat transfer beyond naturally occurring
materials owing to their well-designed artificial structures. The idea of thermal metamaterial …

The world communicates to our senses of vision, hearing, and touch in the language of
waves, because light, sound, and even heat essentially consist of microscopic vibrations of …

The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two
and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic …

The concept of coherence is one of the fundamental phenomena in electronics and optics. In
addition to electron and photon, phonon is another important energy and information carrier …