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20092026
most citedThermal Conductivity of Polymers and Their Nanocomposites

817 citations · 2.4k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.app-ph2026

Non-reciprocal heat transfer advances flexible thermoelectric devices

Jinwen Yang, Wenmei Luo, Hongbin Xu +5

Complex heat dissipation assemblies, inferior performance, and limited flexibility are the primary constraints impeding the wide application and commercialization of conventional f…

physics.comp-ph2021

Strong phase correlation between diffusons governs heat conduction in amorphous silicon

Zhongwei Zhang, Yangyu Guo, Marc Bescond +3

Understanding the thermal vibrations and thermal transport in amorphous materials is an important but long-standing issue in several theoretical and practical fields. Using direct…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 116 cited

Heat conduction theory including phonon coherence

Zhongwei Zhang, Yangyu Guo, Marc Bescond +3

Understanding and quantifying the fundamental physical property of coherence of thermal excitations is a long-standing and general problem in physics. The conventional theory, i.e.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 1 cited

Self-synchronization of thermal phonons at equilibrium

Zhongwei Zhang, Yangyu Guo, Marc Bescond +3

Self-synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, in which oscillators are collectively locked in frequency and phase through mutual interactions. While self-synchronizati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 51 cited

A generalized decay law for particle- and wave-like thermal phonons

Zhongwei Zhang, Yangyu Guo, Marc Bescond +3

Our direct atomic simulations reveal that a thermally activated phonon mode involves a large population of elastic wavepackets. These excitations are characterized by a wide distri…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Off-center Rattling Triggers High-Temperature Thermal Transport in Thermoelectric lathrates: Non-Perturbative Approach

Qing Xi, Zhongwei Zhang, Tsuneyoshi Nakayama +3

Lattice thermal conductivities of type-I clathrates encapsulating "off-center" guest atoms behave in a way that is sharply different from those of conventional crystals…