The description of phonon heat conduction has typically been based on Fourier diffusion
theory. However, over the past three decades, a host of interesting phonon transport …

Thermoelectric (TE) materials have the capability of converting heat into electricity, which
can improve fuel efficiency, as well as providing robust alternative energy supply in multiple …

The reduced dimensionality makes low-dimensional nanomaterials possessing diverse
unusual size-dependent transport properties, due to the distinct quantum confinement …

Controlling the flow of thermal energy is crucial to numerous applications ranging from
microelectronic devices to energy storage and energy conversion devices. Here, we report …

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 …

Phonons can display both wave-like and particle-like behaviour during thermal transport.
While thermal transport in silicon nanomeshes has been previously interpreted by phonon …

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 …

This work summarizes the recent progress on the thermal transport properties of 3D
nanostructures, with an emphasis on experimental results. Depending on the applications …

Thermoelectrics operating at high temperature can cost-effectively convert waste heat and
compete with other zero-carbon technologies. Among different high-temperature …

Thermoelectric generators, which convert heat directly into electrical power, have great
potentialities in the energy harvesting field. The exploitation of these potentialities is limited …