A UCLA-led, multi-institution research team has discovered a metallic material with the highest thermal conductivity measured among metals, challenging long-standing assumptions about the limits of ...

Heat transport in harmonic crystals is a fascinating area of study that explores how thermal energy moves through crystalline materials. This topic is particularly relevant in understanding the ...

The researchers have made a major advance in controlling radiative heat flow at the nanoscale by combining topological physics with thermal metaphotonics. Their study, published in npj Metamaterials, ...

Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy. This makes them particularly attractive for the emerging Internet of Things. For example, for the autonomous ...

Artistic visualization of a crystalline rod made of the semimetal ZrTe 5. There is a heat gradient from one end to the other. In its center, giant oscillations in its heat conduction are toggled by ...

For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the nanoscale. Over and over, I've learned that when we shrink a material down to ...

Heat transport in harmonic crystals has garnered significant attention due to its fundamental importance in understanding thermal conduction at the microscopic scale. In these systems, atoms or ...