Recently, the need for miniaturization and high integration have steered a strong technical
wave in developing (micro‐) electronic devices. However, excessive amounts of heat may …

Thermal transport at the nanoscale level is attracting attention not only because of its
physically interesting features such as the peculiar behavior of phonons due to their …

Rapid advancements in nanotechnologies for energy conversion and transport applications
urgently require a further understanding of interfacial thermal transport and enhancement of …

Abstract Using two-dimensional (2D) materials as photocatalyst for water splitting become a
considerable technology for green and clean energy, where the candidate photocatalysts …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have received tremendous attention from the research
community in the past decades, because of their numerous striking physical, chemical and …

Auxetic materials are highly desirable for advanced applications because of their negative
Poisson's ratios, which are rather scarce in two-dimensional materials. Motivated by the …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) and acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are artificially architected
materials endowed with the capabilities of wave manipulation. This review specifically …

Nano-phononic crystals have attracted a great deal of research interest in the field of
nanoscale thermal transport due to their unique coherent thermal transport behavior. So far …

The assembling of two dimensional (2D) materials via van der Waals (vdW) interactions is
significantly gaining tremendous attention in emerging nanoelectronics and …

Heat dissipation through interfaces becomes challenging in nanodevices which impedes the
dissipation of waste heat. Accordingly, effective approaches are needed to optimize …