Metric for quantifying elastic and inelastic thermal transport at interfaces

Y Xu, Y Zhou - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Understanding interfacial thermal transport across interfaces is crucial for unraveling heat
transfer mechanisms in materials and devices. Interestingly, an effective metric to quantify …

Optimizing the performance of phase-change azobenzene: from trial and error to machine learning

K Wang, H Yu, J Gao, Y Feng, W Feng - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular solar thermal (MOST) systems employ molecular photoswitches to store or
release solar energy as heat under specific conditions. Among these systems, azobenzene …

Prediction methods for phonon transport properties of inorganic crystals: from traditional approaches to artificial intelligence

Y Wei, Z Liu, G Qin - Nanoscale Horizons, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
In inorganic crystals, phonons are the elementary excitations describing the collective
atomic motions. The study of phonons plays an important role in terms of understanding …

Near-interface effects on interfacial phonon transport: Competition between phonon-phonon interference and phonon-phonon scattering

Y Xu, BY Cao, Y Zhou - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent studies suggest that the phonon-phonon couplings in the near-interface region may
affect interfacial thermal transport. In this paper, we revisit the interfacial thermal transport …

Active learning molecular dynamics-assisted insights into ultralow thermal conductivity of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

Z Li, H Dong, J Wang, L Liu, JY Yang - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) are novel materials with high
porosities and large surface areas that are highly sought after for separation technologies …

Thermal boundary conductance of metal–diamond interfaces predicted by machine learning interatomic potentials

KZ Adnan, MR Neupane, T Feng - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermal boundary conductance (TBC) across metal–diamond interfaces plays a critical role
in the thermal management of future diamond-based ultrawide bandgap semiconductor …

Enhancing nanoscale phase-change heat transfer by collaborative roles of surface functionalization and external electric field

W Liu, Y Xu, Z Li, F Duan, Y Zhou - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2025 - Elsevier
Understanding the mechanism behind phase-change heat transfer and designing new
strategies to improve the heat transfer coefficient is crucial for numerous applications, such …

The Enormous and Distinctive Role of Four-Phonon Scattering in the Thermal Transport Characteristic of Pentagonal Structures

P Tian, Y Gao, Z Yang, X Zhang, Y Liu… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the thermal transport characteristics of penta-CN2 and-BCN, which can be
seen as the analogues of penta-graphene, are systematically studied by first-principles …

Promising Candidate for Ising Ferromagnetism of the Two-Dimensional Kagome V2O3 Honeycomb Monolayer

F Subhan, C Gao, L Ali, Y Zhou, Z Qin… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Due to the low dimensionality in the quantization of the electronic states and degree of
freedom for device modulation, two-dimensional ferromagnetism plays a critical role in lots …

Tunable Thermal Conductivity of Sustainable Geopolymers by the Si/Al Ratio and Moisture Content: Insights from Atomistic Simulations

W Liu, S Ju - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this work, the effects of the Si/Al ratio and moisture content on thermal transport in
sustainable geopolymers have been comprehensively investigated by using the molecular …