Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Near-field radiative heat transfer in many-body systems

SA Biehs, R Messina, PS Venkataram… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many
interacting objects. This review examines recent progress on the topic of radiative heat …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal diodes, regulators, and switches: Physical mechanisms and potential applications

G Wehmeyer, T Yabuki, C Monachon, J Wu… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Nonreciprocal thermal photonics for energy conversion and radiative heat transfer

Z Zhang, L Zhu - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
Controlling emission and absorption, and radiative heat transfer, is important for photonic
energy conversion and thermal management. However, the reciprocal emission and …

Nanogap near-field thermophotovoltaics

A Fiorino, L Zhu, D Thompson, R Mittapally… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Conversion of heat to electricity via solid-state devices is of great interest and has led to
intense research of thermoelectric materials,. Alternative approaches for solid-state heat-to …

Radiative heat transfer

JC Cuevas, FJ García-Vidal - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermal radiation is one of the most universal physical phenomena, and its study has
played a key role in the history of modern physics. Our understanding of this subject has …

Infrared fingerprints of few-layer black phosphorus

G Zhang, S Huang, A Chaves, C Song… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Black phosphorus is an infrared layered material. Its bandgap complements other widely
studied two-dimensional materials: zero-gap graphene and visible/near-infrared gap …

Ultrafast and nanoscale energy transduction mechanisms and coupled thermal transport across interfaces

A Giri, SG Walton, J Tomko, N Bhatt, MJ Johnson… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coupled interactions among the fundamental carriers of charge, heat, and
electromagnetic fields at interfaces and boundaries give rise to energetic processes that …

A review of the state-of-the-art on thermal insulation performance of polymeric foams

R Hasanzadeh, T Azdast, PC Lee, CB Park - Thermal Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Achieving the global energy sustainability plays a key role in the energy fields. Thermal
insulation materials play a vital role on this sustainability. There are different potential …