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Recent advances in our understanding of thermal transport in nanocrystalline systems are responsible for the integration of new technologies into advanced energy systems, including thermoelectric refrigeration systems and renewable energy…
Within the framework of the unified theory thermal transport model, the competing contributions of coherent and incoherent terms create a trade-off relationship, posing substantial challenges to achieving a reduction in overall $\rm…
Low temperature superconductivity was known since 1957 to be described by BCS theory for an effective single band metals controlled by the density of states at the Fermi level, very far from band edges, the electron phonon coupling, and the…
Crystalline solids with extreme insulation often exhibit a plateau or even an upward-sloping tail in thermal conductivity above room temperature. Herein, we synthesized a crystalline material AgTl$_2$I$_3$ with an exceptionally low thermal…
A fundamental understanding of phonon transport in stanene is crucial to predict the thermal performance in potential stanene-based devices. By combining first-principle calculation and phonon Boltzmann transport equation, we obtain the…
From next generation gas turbines to scavenging waste heat from car exhausts, finding new materials with ultra-low thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) has the potential to lead to large gains in device efficiency. Crystal structures with…
The quest to improve the thermoelectric figure of merit has mainly followed the roadmap of lowering the thermal conductivity while keeping unaltered the power factor of the material. Ideally an electron-crystal phonon-glass system is…
We compute the thermoelectric and thermal transport in the weakly disordered non-Fermi liquid phase of the Luttinger semimetals at zero doping, where the decay rate associated with the (strong) Coulomb interactions is much larger than the…
Predicting high temperature superconductors has long been a great challenge. A major difficulty is how to predict the transition temperature Tc of superconductors. Recently, progress in material informatics has led to a number of machine…
Recent discoveries of materials with ultra-low thermal conductivity open a pathway to significant developments in the field of thermoelectricity. Here, we conduct a comparative study of three chemically similar antimonides to establish the…
We study the thermal transport properties of three CaF$_{2}$ polymorphs up to a pressure of 30 GPa using first-principle calculations and an interatomic potential based on machine learning. The lattice thermal conductivity $\kappa$ is…
After the discovery of graphene, there have been tremendous efforts in exploring various layered two-dimensional (2D) materials for their potential applications in electronics, optoelectronics, as well as energy conversion and storage. One…
Ternary pnictides semiconductors with II-IV-V2 stoichiometry hold potential as cost effective thermoelectric materials with suitable electronic transport properties, but their lattice thermal conductivities ($\kappa$) are typically too…
Designing materials with low thermal conductivity (\k{appa}) is of demand for thermal protection, heat insulation, thermoelectricity, etc. In this paper, based on the start-of-art first-principles calculations, we propose a framework of a…
A high power factor and low lattice thermal conductivity are two essential ingredients of highly efficient thermoelectric materials. Although monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides possess high power factors, high lattice thermal…
Efficient and precise calculations of thermal transport properties and figure of merit, alongside a deep comprehension of thermal transport mechanisms, are essential for the practical utilization of advanced thermoelectric materials. In…
The search for materials with intrinsically low thermal conductivity ($\kappa_L$) is critical for energy applications, yet conventional descriptors often fail to capture the complex interplay between bonding and lattice dynamics. Here,…
We present a first-principles theoretical approach for evaluating the lattice thermal conductivity based on the exact solution of the Boltzmann transport equation. We use the variational principle and the conjugate gradient scheme, which…
Superconductors have the potential to revolutionize technology due to their ability to have zero electrical resistance. However, superconductor materials require either low temperatures or high pressures to function in a superconductive…
Designing and searching for high lattice thermal conductivity materials in both bulk and nanoscale level is highly demanding for electronics cooling. Boron phosphide is a III-V compound semiconductor with superior structural and thermal…