The 2021 room-temperature superconductivity roadmap

B Lilia, R Hennig, P Hirschfeld, G Profeta… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Designing materials with advanced functionalities is the main focus of contemporary solid-
state physics and chemistry. Research efforts worldwide are funneled into a few high-end …

Emerging theory and phenomena in thermal conduction: A selective review

J Chen, J He, D Pan, X Wang, N Yang, J Zhu… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Strain-Induced Medium-Temperature Thermoelectric Performance of : The Role of Four-Phonon Scattering

XK Chen, EM Zhang, D Wu, KQ Chen - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the synthesized Cu 4 Ti Se 4 with ultralow room-temperature thermal
conductivity [Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 60, 9106 (2021)], we systematically investigate its …

FourPhonon: An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity

Z Han, X Yang, W Li, T Feng, X Ruan - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
FourPhonon is a computational package that can calculate four-phonon scattering rates in
crystals. It is built within ShengBTE framework, which is a well-recognized lattice thermal …

Wigner formulation of thermal transport in solids

M Simoncelli, N Marzari, F Mauri - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Two different heat-transport mechanisms are discussed in solids. In crystals, heat carriers
propagate and scatter particlelike as described by Peierls's formulation of the Boltzmann …

Overdamped Phonon Diffusion and Nontrivial Electronic Structure Leading to a High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in KCu5Se3

F Li, X Liu, N Ma, YC Yang, JP Yin… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric copper selenides are highly attractive owing to not only their constituent
nontoxic, abundant elements but also their ultralow liquid-like lattice thermal conductivity …

Lattice thermal conductivity including phonon frequency shifts and scattering rates induced by quartic anharmonicity in cubic oxide and fluoride perovskites

Y Zhao, S Zeng, G Li, C Lian, Z Dai, S Meng, J Ni - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Lattice thermal conductivity κ L is one of the key parameters involved in the design of
microelectronics and energy-conversion devices. In determining the κ L, similar to the well …

Strong quartic anharmonicity, ultralow thermal conductivity, high band degeneracy and good thermoelectric performance in Na2TlSb

T Yue, Y Zhao, J Ni, S Meng, Z Dai - npj Computational Materials, 2023 - nature.com
We employ first-principles calculations combined with self-consistent phonon theory and
Boltzmann transport equations to investigate the thermal transport and thermoelectric …

Unraveling thermal transport correlated with atomistic structures in amorphous gallium oxide via machine learning combined with experiments

Y Liu, H Liang, L Yang, G Yang, H Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal transport properties of amorphous materials are crucial for their emerging
applications in energy and electronic devices. However, understanding and controlling …

Accelerating the prediction of stable materials with machine learning

SD Griesemer, Y Xia, C Wolverton - Nature Computational Science, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the rise in computing power, the large space of possible combinations of elements
and crystal structure types makes large-scale high-throughput surveys of stable materials …