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Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology research to be new and emerging; however, quite a few also wondered what it was about and questioned its real-world applications. Nowadays, the benefits of nanotechnology have entered our daily lives; it is hard for a teenager or a young adult to imagine living in an environment without modern mobile devices, internet, big data, etc. Many universities have since used my book in teaching graduate and undergraduate courses related to the micro/nanoscale thermal transport. Remarkable progress has been made in the last decade on the simulations, measurements, and applications of nanoscale thermal science and engineering. The second edition is an update of the first edition, covering the recent advances in this field. The …