Heat Transport in Advanced Functional Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023)
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Interests: nuclear fuels; machine learning; functional materials; thermomechanical property; thermal conductivity; finite element analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Functional materials with peculiar heat transfer properties are currently at the forefront of academic and industrial interest. As a result, these materials have flourished in various applications over the past two decades, including thermal energy storage, power electronics heat management, thermal electric energy conversion, and thermal barrier coatings.
Depending on their particular applications, heat transfer has been utilized in various forms in functional materials. For example, the high thermal conductivity in 2D materials such as graphene has been widely utilized in the thermal management of nanoscale electronic devices. Meanwhile, the study of high heat radiation in hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures has introduced us to electroluminescent cooling. Investigating the interactions between thermal and other energy forms has led to advances in the thermal–electrical, thermal–mechanical, thermal–optical, and thermal–acoustic performances of numerous functional materials.
However, to fully utilize the applicational potentials of the heat transfer properties in functional materials, a more comprehensive understanding of heat transfer behavior is required. This includes the intrinsic thermal conduction, convection, and radiation properties; the transfer of energy during phase changes; and the physics behind the transformation between different forms of energy and heat.
This proposed investigation will encourage further advances in functional materials with thermal-based applications. In order to promote the development of new materials and a better understanding of heat transfer physics, this Special Issue will focus on presenting functional materials with novel heat transfer-based applications, improvements in heat-transfer-related properties in phase change materials, as well as new insights into the physics and chemistry involving the heat transfer properties of existing functional materials.
We kindly invite you to submit your manuscript(s) for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Bowen Gong
Guest Editor
Dr. Bowen Gong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermal interface materials
- phase change materials
- thermoelectric materials
- nanophononic metamaterials
- thermal barrier coatings
- heat management
- topological phononics
- phonon scattering
- interfacial thermal resistance
- electroluminescent cooling
- thermally conductive polymers
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