Inspection reliability of small-scale defects, targeting dimensions below 100 µm, is crucial for
structural safety of critical components in high-value applications. Early defects are often …

Fundamental research and continued miniaturization of materials, components and systems
have raised the need for the development of thermal‐investigation methods enabling ultra …

Solar vaporization has received tremendous attention for its potential in desalination,
sterilization, distillation, etc. However, a few major roadblocks toward practical application …

Plasmonic nanoparticles with outstanding photothermal conversion efficiency are promising
for solar vaporization. However, the high cost and the required intense light excitation of …

Imaging temperature fields at the nanoscale is a central challenge in various areas of
science and technology. Nanoscopic hotspots, such as those observed in integrated circuits …

This review discusses recent advances in materials engineering to control thermal
conductivity. We begin by presenting theories of heat conduction for general material …

Graphene has attracted considerable attention as a promising candidate to improve the
thermal conductivity of polymers owing to its extremely high intrinsic thermal conductivity (∼ …

A method is described to quantify thermal conductance and temperature distributions with
nanoscale resolution using scanning thermal microscopy. In the first step, the thermal …

Two-dimensional materials, including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides and their
heterostructures, exhibit great potential for a variety of applications, such as transistors …

For more than 30 years, scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) has been used for thermal
imaging and quantitative thermal measurements. It has proven its usefulness for …