Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

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 …

In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging and photothermal therapy (PTT) have attracted extensive
attention in disease diagnosis and treatment. Although many exogenous contrast agents …

Thermally insulating materials based on renewable nanomaterials such as nanocellulose
could reduce the energy consumption and the environmental impact of the building sector …

Carbon dots that exhibit near-infrared fluorescence (NIR CDs) are considered emerging
nanomaterials for advanced biomedical applications with low toxicity and superior …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …

Conjugated polymers and related processing techniques have been developed for organic
electronic devices ranging from lightweight photovoltaics to flexible displays. These …

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