Phonon-engineered extreme thermal conductivity materials

X Qian, J Zhou, G Chen - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

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 …

Plasmonic phenomena in molecular junctions: principles and applications

M Wang, T Wang, OS Ojambati, TJ Duffin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

Molecular electronics: creating and bridging molecular junctions and promoting its commercialization

T Li, VK Bandari, OG Schmidt - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular electronics is driven by the dream of expanding Moore's law to the molecular level
for next‐generation electronics through incorporating individual or ensemble molecules into …

Bonding‐Enhanced Interfacial Thermal Transport: Mechanisms, Materials, and Applications

XD Zhang, G Yang, BY Cao - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid advancements in nanotechnologies for energy conversion and transport applications
urgently require a further understanding of interfacial thermal transport and enhancement of …

Full thermoelectric characterization of a single molecule

A Gemma, F Tabatabaei, U Drechsler, A Zulji… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecules are predicted to be chemically tunable towards high thermoelectric efficiencies
and they could outperform existing materials in the field of energy conversion. However …

Non-Fourier heat transport in nanosystems

G Benenti, D Donadio, S Lepri, R Livi - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2023 - Springer
Energy transfer in small nano-sized systems can be very different from that in their
macroscopic counterparts due to reduced dimensionality, interaction with surfaces, disorder …

Thermal and thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions

K Wang, E Meyhofer, P Reddy - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular junctions (MJs) represent an ideal platform for studying charge and energy
transport at the atomic and molecular scale and are of fundamental interest for the …

Observation of superdiffusive phonon transport in aligned atomic chains

L Yang, Y Tao, Y Zhu, M Akter, K Wang, Z Pan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fascinating phenomena can occur as charge and/or energy carriers are confined in one
dimension,,–. One such example is the divergent thermal conductivity (κ) of one-dimensional …

Complete mapping of the thermoelectric properties of a single molecule

P Gehring, JK Sowa, C Hsu, J de Bruijckere… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Theoretical studies suggest that mastering the thermocurrent through single molecules can
lead to thermoelectric energy harvesters with unprecedentedly high efficiencies.,,,,–This can …