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

The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Ferroelectric domain walls have emerged as a new type of interface in which the dynamic
characteristics of ferroelectricity introduce the element of spatial mobility, allowing real-time …

Ferroelectric materials, because of their robust spontaneous electrical polarization, are
widely used in various applications. Recent advances in modelling, synthesis and …

Interest in new thermal diodes, regulators, and switches has been rapidly growing because
these components have the potential for rich transport phenomena that cannot be achieved …

The poor performance of lithium-ion batteries in extreme temperatures is hindering their
wider adoption in the energy sector. A fundamental challenge in battery thermal …

Effective control of heat transfer is vital for energy saving and carbon emission reduction. In
contrast to achievements in electrical conduction, active control of heat transfer is much …

Unlike the wide-ranging dynamic control of electrical conductivity, there does not exist an
analogous ability to tune thermal conductivity by means of electric potential. The traditional …

Advanced encoding technologies are crucial for information processing and storage, and
have been widely studied and implemented in various wave fields such as electromagnetics …

Understanding mesoscale ferroelectric domain structures and their switching behavior
under external fields is critical to applications of ferroelectrics. The phase-field method has …