Thermal Transport in Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2020) | Viewed by 50743
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer nanocomposites; thermally conductive materials; graphene and related materials; flame retardancy of polymers; thermochemical storage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Thermal Transport in Nanostructures and Nanomaterials” is currently focusing significant research efforts in different research communities, including material scientists, condensed matter physicists, and computational modelers. Different target applications are currently being investigated, including nanocomposites and other nanostructures with enhanced thermal conductivity, extremely low thermal conductivity aerogels, thermoelectric materials, and phononic materials. Challenges in the control and design of thermally-efficient nanomaterials mostly relate to the properties of interfaces between nano-objects, as well as between nano-objects and the continuous phase. The study of phenomena associated to heat transfer across interfaces in nanomaterials, as well as the engineering of interfaces to obtain nanomaterials with superior thermal properties, are currently fascinating yet challenging research topics, which are expected to soon merge into a unique multidisciplinary research domain.
This Special Issue of Nanomaterials will attempt to cover the most recent advances in “Thermal Transport in Nanostructures and Nanomaterials”, concerning their design, manufacturing, characterization and computational modelling, as well as exploitation in devices.
Prof. Dr. Alberto Fina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Thermal transport in nanostructures and nanomaterials
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal interfaces
- Nanoscale heat transfer
- Nanocomposites
- Nanophononics
- Phononic materials
- Molecular junctions
- Thermoelectric materials
- Low thermal conductivity aerogels
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